Historical Marker

First Tavern

Historical marker location:
299 North Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee
( Marker is on North Main Street north of Winchester Avenue, on the left when traveling north.)
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.
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