Elmbrooke Barn

Historical marker location:

Brentwood, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Elmbrooke Boulevard and Concord Road (Tennessee Route 253), on the right when traveling north on Elmbrooke Boulevard.)

Circa 1820.

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.