Historical Marker
Boyd House
Historical marker location:
18 W Madison Ave, Athens, Tennessee
( Marker is on West Madison Avenue (Business U.S. 11) just east of Church Street, on the left when traveling east.)
18 W. Madison Ave.
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.