Methodist Church

Historical marker location:

148 5th Ave S, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of 5th Ave South (Tennessee Route 106) and Church Street (Tennessee Route 246), on the right when traveling south on 5th Ave South.)

Marker installed: 1995

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.