113 E. Lafayette

Historical marker location:

113 E Lafayette St, Jackson, Tennessee

( Marker is on East Lafayette Street west of North Liberty Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2009

Circa 1840 .

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.