Historical Marker
Howard Schools
Historical marker location:
205 East Main Street, Gallatin, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (State Highway 25) and College Street, on the right when traveling east on East 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.