Fighting Bushwhackers

Historical marker location:

222 West Main Street, Mountain City, Tennessee

( Marker is on Court Street north of West Main Street, on the left when traveling north.)

<i>The Civil War in Taylorsville</i>.

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.