Attack at Suck Creek

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on Suck Creek Road (Tennessee Route 27) west of Signal Mountain Road (U.S. 127), on the left when traveling north.)

Union Supply Choke Point. Chattanooga Campaign.

Tennessee was the site of the first recorded manned flight in history. In 1878, a man named George Washington Pearcy flew a steam-powered aircraft over a field in Shelbyville, Tennessee.