Hell on the Hatchie

Historical marker location:

Pocahontas, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Essary Springs Road, 1.3 miles south of Wolf Pen Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Engagement at Davis Bridge. October 5, 1862.

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.