As an arsenal, the facility was at peak operation during World War II and would serve as an ammunitions plant in various roles until 1992.

Over 14,000 people were employed at the Arsenal during World War II,[2] and the village of Windham was chosen as the site to house many of these workers.

Windham experienced a population boom as a result; its growth of over 1200% was the largest of any U.S. municipality in the 1950 Census, as was reported in the June 1951 edition of National Geographic Magazine.

[1] Among these experiments was aircraft crash testing, which led to the development of an inerting system to prevent jet fuel fires.

However, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) work group recommended that the Army not burn the buildings due to the high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the paint.

[1] The site is now known as Camp James A. Garfield and currently occupies approximately 93% of the land originally covered by the RVAAP.

[13] The essayist Scott Russell Sanders spent part of his childhood living on the grounds of the Ravenna Arsenal.

The Hole in the Horn Buck is officially listed as the second largest non-typical white-tailed deer of all time by the Boone and Crockett Club.

It was later claimed by eyewitness George Winters to have been inflicted by a piece of chain-link fence which pierced the antler shortly before the buck died.