Dr. George B. Hunter Farm / Along Leiper's Fork

Historical marker location:

5320 Leipers Creek Road, Leiper's Fork, Tennessee

( Marker is on Leipers Creek Road, 0.4 miles west of Pinewood Road (Tennessee Route 46), on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2005

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.