Here’s a nice, full-page of the Lorain Journal devoted to the history of the village that ran in that paper on August 29, 1963 – 55 years ago today. The two articles were both written by Frances Perkins.
The first article points out that the village had only been incorporated in February 1958. The second article notes the the village was originally named Binghamton (which any TV-watching Baby Boomer remember as the name of the Captain played byJoe Flynn on McHale’s Navy). It doesn’t really say why the railroad renamed it Kipton.
Anyway, the top article includes a photo of Kipton’s Civil War Soldier Monument, which at least to my eye was already beginning to lean.