Shenandoah Crash Site Museum, Ohio

The USS Shenandoah was the first rigid airship made in the United States, in 1923. Two years after its maiden flight, it crashed in a thunderstorm in southeast Ohio, with most of it falling to earth near the town of Ava. The owners of the garage in town, Theresa and Bryan Rayner, became the chief local historians of the crash, directing people to the debris sites, and arranging memorials and displays. They made a museum about the crash inside a camper trailer they had towed away from a wreck on the highway. Inside are many historic photos of the crash, as well as pieces of the Shenandoah. The mobile museum, which has been updated in a newer trailer, resides inside their now closed gas station/garage in Ava.