Wiley Oakley

Historical marker location:

Gatlinburg, Tennessee

( Marker is on Chapman Hwy (U.S. 321) near Wiley Oakley Drive.)

"Roamin Man of the Mountains".

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.