"Charge Them Both Ways"

Historical marker location:

Parkers Crossroads, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Tennessee Route 22, 0.6 miles north of Interstate 40, on the right when traveling north.)

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.