McEwen Cemetery

Historical marker location:

21307 Wyndchase Cir, Brentwood, Tennessee

( Marker is on Wyndchase Circle just west of Aspen Grove Drive, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2003

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.