Col. David Crockett

Historical marker location:

Public Square, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Public Square and South Military Street, on the left when traveling north on Public Square.)

Marker installed: 1922

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.