RyeMabee 1930

Historical marker location:

224 Main Street, Monteagle, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 41/64) and Mabee Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.)

Marion County, Tennessee.

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.