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Pittsburg, Texas: Ezekiel Airship: Bible First in Powered Flight

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Address:
Fulton St., Pittsburg, TX
Directions:
On Fulton Street at S. Market, by the railroad tracks, about a block east of the museum.
Phone:
903-856-0463
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Ezekiel Airship: Bible First in Powered Flight

Forget the Wright Brothers! The first powered flight took place in Texas, and a historical plaque marks the old foundry site where a preacher-inventor built the airship, which was described in the Bible.

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HIstorical marker.

Ezekiel Airship - Bible First in Powered Flight

Overgrown weeds, but the historical marker is still there.

[Sarah Danford, 12/24/2018]

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