Historical Marker
1949 Whiteway Lighting System
Historical marker location:
204 W Church St, Lewisburg, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of West Church Street and North 2nd Avenue (Business U.S. 431), on the right when traveling west on West Church Street.)
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.