Indian Field Camp Meeting (2007)

Indian Field Camp Ground of Dorchester County SC is in an area where Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury preached in 1801 and 1803 Camp meetings were held nearby as early as 1810 The present tenacre site for an annual camp ground dates from 1838 and its buildings from a decade later In the center sits an openair tabernacle for the revival services Ninetynine wooden tents circle the tabernacle These cabins generally have an upper story for sleeping and a downstairs for food preparation and eating and porches for socializing A tent gets handed down from generation to generation in member white families The Indian Tent camp meetings are scheduled for the first week in October