Historical Marker
Nolensville School
Historical marker location:
7248 Nolensville Road, Nolensville, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Nolensville Road (Alternate U.S. 31) and Sunset Road, on the right when traveling north on Nolensville Road.)
Marker installed: 2018
1937.
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.