Historical Marker
Carnton
Historical marker location:
1345 Eastern Flank Cir, Franklin, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Eastern Flank Circle, 0.4 miles south of Lewisburg Pike (Business U.S. 431), on the left when traveling west.)
A Final Place of Rest.
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.