Vicksburg

Historical marker location:

125 N Front St, Memphis, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Island Drive, 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south.)

Panel #31 Mississippi Riverwalk.

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.