Bell Witch

Historical marker location:

7634 US 41, Adams, Tennessee

( Marker is on County Route 41, 0.1 miles east of Keysburg Road (Highway 1884), on the right when traveling west.)

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.