In Ava on State Route 821- Monument to Captain Zachary Lansdown and 13 other victims of the crash of the USS Shenandoah. Twenty-nine survived the accident. The navy dirigible-the first rigid airship built in America- was broken apart during a severe thunderstorm in the early morning hours of September 3, 1925, and fell to earth in three parts over the rugged hills of Noble County.
    The site where the stern section came to rest is visible from Interstate 77, north of the Belle Valley exit in Noble Township. The bow section floated to the Ernest Nichols farm west of Sharon. A monument and picnic area mark the site where the control car was broken off is located on a farm east of Interstate 77 about one-half mile from where the stern section came to rest. A monument and flag pole mark the site.
     After looters left the crash scene, the Navy recovered only $3,000 worth of scrape from the $3 million lighter-than-air craft. Two schools in the county, Shenandoah Elementary and Shenandoah High, are named after the airship.