Mossy Creek / Jefferson City Train Depot

Historical marker location:

722 E Main St, Jefferson City, Tennessee

( Marker is on East Main Street near Mechanic Street, on the right when traveling east.)

1870-1985.

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.