Indian Fields Campground is a Methodist site for camp meetings. It is one of about 5 in South Carolina. The local church was founded in 1787. Revival meetings started out as tents and an arbor for the circuit preacher. In 1801 / 1803 the official campgrounds was created.
The design of the campground was taken from the Book of Leviticus in the Bible. In there, dwellings were called tents, though made of wood, and the meeting house was called the tabernacle. A horn was blown to summon members to service.
There are 99 tents/cabins built around an open air Tabernacle, just as described in the Bible.
Over time the cabins and Tabernacle have been rebuilt, or at least repaired. In a visit to the Cypress Campground in South Carolina we were invited into a tent. The building was mostly original!
Indian Fields is privately owned by the Methodist Church in Dorchester County, South Carolina.
Up here in MA there is a place known as Asbury Grove https://www.asburygrove.org/ and here in my town of Epping is a an area known as Hedding https://www.heddingcampground.org/ as a child I visited my uncle and his family at the MA location and when I moved to Epping over 35 years ago I thought we were forbidden from entering Hedding years later I found this to not be the case.
It turns out camp meetings were not just in the Deep South. Who knew 😳
Exactly! I loved both places.