Edgefield Branch RailroadThe Edgefiled Branch Railroad was a South Carolina railroad that existed immediately after the Reconstruction Era of the United States.CharterThe Edgefield Branch Railroad was chartered in 1878 to build a line from Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, to extend to Trenton, South Carolina, where it would be able to connect with the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.Name changeA year later, the company's charter was amended in 1879 to change the line's name to the Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken Railroad.