Historical Marker
Governor Thomas Clarke Rye
Historical marker location:
1216 Dunlap Street, Paris, Tennessee
( Marker is on Dunlap Street, 0.1 miles south of West Dale Street, on the left when traveling south.)
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.