Editing Kipton, Ohio (section)

==History==
Kipton was [[plat]]ted around 1852 by Wm.W.Whitney<ref>{{cite book|last=Overman|first=William Daniel|title=Ohio Town Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015361465;view=1up;seq=86|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=70}}</ref> in anticipation of a new railroad route being laid out through his farm. He initially named his new village "Binghamton", in honor of his former home of Binghamton, NY. However, the name "Camden Station" would instead be used until 1862, when its name was changed to "Kipton Station" (and later becoming known simply as 'Kipton').

For many years, Kipton continued as a stop along the Southern Division of the [[Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad]]; however, the line was abandoned and pulled up in 1976.  This former railroad route is now a part of a [[rail trail]], the [http://www.metroparks.cc/reservation-north-coast-inland-trail.php North Coast Inland Trail].

Kipton was the site of a famous [[List of rail accidents (1890–1899)#1891|train wreck]] on April 18, 1891,<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Great Kipton Train Wreck|url = http://postalmuseumblog.si.edu/2013/04/the-great-kipton-train-wreck.html|website = National Postal Museum|access-date = February 20, 2016}}</ref> which was caused by railroad engineers' [[pocket watch|watches]] not being in sync; and led to the adoption of stringent quality-control standards for [[railroad chronometers]] in 1893.  An [[Ohio History Center|Ohio Historical marker]] in Kipton Community Park notes the details of the collision.<ref>{{cite book  | title=Ghosts and Legends of Northern Ohio | publisher=Haunted America, A Division of The History Press | author=Krejci, William G. | year=2019 | pages=[51–52]}}</ref>