Every ghost-story site in the South has a legend about an Indian burial ground. This county has a place called Indian Field, which makes the temptation obvious. The honest position is shorter: the sources reviewed for this page do not explain where the name comes from.
What is documented
1787: Indian Field Methodist Church began, about three miles east of the Rosinville community. Late 1700s: The first campground was held on a farm, probably near that first church. December 21, 1801 and January 13, 1803: Bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal that he preached at Indian Fields, though he did not say whether he meant the church or the camp. Sources date the campground to 1810, it moved to its present site in 1838, and the tents there date to 1848. The campground was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
So the name was already in use in the 1780s. It is older than the church. That is all the record says about it.
What it plausibly means, and what is a guess
Cleared land is a common reason for a name like this in the colonial South. Native peoples farmed and burned openings in the woods, and settlers later called such places old fields. That is a general pattern, not a documented fact about this site, and nothing here confirms it. There is also no archaeological report in the sources reviewed that places a village or burial ground at the campground.
Why the dispatches do not invent a legend
County Line Confidential keeps one rule: dated paragraphs are sourced fact, and undated sentences are fiction. The county’s Native peoples were real, they were pushed out within living memory of the colony’s own records, and their descendants are neighbors today. Attaching a curse or a ghost to a Native burial ground is a stock trope, and the stories will not use it. The supernatural in this series comes from the crossing, the river, the fire of 1995 and the 1886 earthquake, and from the people who stayed.
If you know something
If your family has a real account of how Indian Field got its name, write to the editor. It will be checked, credited and, if it holds up, added here.
Sources: Indian Fields Methodist Campground (Wikipedia); Roots and Recall, Indian Field Circle; Discover South Carolina.