They Passed This Way

Historical marker location:

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

( Memorial is on West College Street east of Brinkley Avenue, on the right when traveling east.)

Trail of Tears National Historic Trail-National Trails System. Stones River National Battlefield.

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.