[3] In 1942, the U.S. government chose Windham as the site of an army camp for workers at the newly built Ravenna Arsenal.

[5][6] Accordingly, the sole bank in Windham holds membership in the Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce.

[7] Prior to 1811, the land now comprising the Village and Township of Windham was owned by Caleb Strong,[8] as part of his holdings through the Ohio Company of Associates.

[9] On September 11, 1810, a group of sixteen men met in Becket, Massachusetts at the home of Thatcher Conant to discuss the purchase of land in Ohio for settlement.

These men, who would be known as the "Beckett [sic] Land Company", consisted of Conant, Elijah Alford, Nathan Birchard, Gideon Bush, Dillingham Clark, Elisha Clark, Isaac Clark, Benjamin Higley, Aaron P. Jagger, Enos Kingsley, Jeremiah Lyman, Bille Messenger, Ebenezer Messenger, Benjamin C. Perkins, John Seely, and Alpheus Streator.

Conant, his wife Elizabeth, Dillingham and Abigail Clark, and Alpheus and Anna Streator donated portions of their allotments near the center of the township for a village green,[8] which was common practice for townships in the Connecticut Western Reserve.

According to the Windham Historical Society, the name of the township "was changed to Sharon, by an act of legislature in about 1820….

The Historical Society also cites political concerns as the reason the name was changed from Strongsburg to Sharon.

[8] Yet another source, The Ohio Gazetteer, and Travelers's [sic] Guide, states that the name was changed from Sharon to Windham in January 1829.

[4] Common to most sources are a few claims which reasonably can be ascertained to be fact: On November 22, 1973, a train heading eastbound at 50 mph derailed to a switch being open to an industrial track.

[5] In 1940, the United States Department of the Army reserved 21,418 acres (86.68 km2) in eastern Portage County for the construction of two facilities[14] One of these was the Portage Ordnance Depot, which with its twin facility the Ravenna Ordnance Plant became known as the Ravenna Arsenal.

Over 14,000 people were employed at the Arsenal during World War II, 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 1100% was the largest of any U.S. municipality in the 1950 Census, as was reported in the June 1951 edition of National Geographic magazine.

[15] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.06 square miles (5.34 km2), all land.

[23] Windham has regular public transit bus service on a weekday Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority route from Ravenna, that also services Garrettsville and Hiram in eastern Portage County.