Cavett's Station

Historical marker location:

8375 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Kingston Pike (U.S. 11 70) and Kingston Pike and Gallaher View Rd, on the right when traveling east on Kingston Pike.)

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.