Forrest Averts Disaster

Historical marker location:

Parkers Crossroads, Tennessee

( Marker is on Federal Lane, 0.2 miles east of Tennessee Route 22, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2015

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.