Historical Marker
Greyhound Bus Station
Historical marker location:
407 E Main St, Jackson, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street and North Cumberland Street, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.)
Marker installed: 2002
407 East Main. 1938.
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.