Historical Marker
City Cemetery / Mexican War Monument
Historical marker location:
223 W Main St, Gallatin, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (State Highway 25) and Cemetery Avenue, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.)
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.