Historical Marker
Ancient Trails
Historical marker location:
502 SE Broad Street, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Southeast Broad Street (U.S. 41/70S) just south of Ash Street, on the right when traveling south.)
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.