Federal Breastworks

Historical marker location:

219 Highway 96, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker is on Tennessee Route 96, 0.1 miles east of 11th Avenue North, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1996

Battle of Franklin.

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.