1862 Post Office

Historical marker location:

Memphis, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Adams Street and Alley Between N. Third and N. Fourth, on the right when traveling east on Adams Street.)

Marker installed: 1969

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.