 Later it was called Copps Corner, after the Norwalk man who surveyed the town in the early 18th century and was the first town clerk.When workers completed in 1852 the railroad line from Norwalk to Danbury, the neighborhood was at first called Beers Station or Ridgefield Station, after the stop there.The first recorded use of the term Branchville appears in an 1870 deed for “lying in the town of Ridgefield at Branchville.” It was the same year that the branch line was built, suggesting that the railroad rather than neighborhood residents had invented the name to distinguish the station from the new one at Ridgefield center.