South Carolina

Fairfield County Places & Things

Story by: Lisa BrandenburgContributor

The first residents of Fairfield County were the Native Americans. Their heritage can be traced to 1300. Our county was used as their hunting preserve. Gathering was easy here with the fertile soil, fair fields, and the fabulous river systems of the Catawba and Broad Rivers. Th is was long before the arrival of the first Europeans in 1740. Arrowheads and pottery can still be found today in Fairfield County.