Green Hill

Historical marker location:

Brentwood, Tennessee

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

Marker installed: 1994

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.