Indiantown, South Carolina

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Indiantown is an unincorporated community in rural Williamsburg County, South Carolina that is a historical site in the area. Prior to the arrival of Europeans to North America, it was the site of a Chickasaw village and the area was a favored hunting and fishing ground. Within the community is the modern headquarters of the eastern Chickasaws, known as the Chaloklowa Chickasaws, which was officially recognized as a tribe by the State of South Carolina in 2005.

It was a site of early European settlement based around the Indiantown Presbyterian Church (founded 1757), which was burned by the British Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton during the American Revolution, an act which increased the loyalty of the area people to his primary opponent, American General Francis Marion.

The Indiantown Church is still the center of the Community. It has a number of Revolutionary soldiers buried in its church yard. The church has purchased the buildings and grounds of the closed Indiantown School, which are used for athletic and cultural events in the community. It operates a day care center as well.

The community also has the Battery Park Elementary School, which is part of the Williamsburg County School District. A plant that processes poultry employs about 130 people.

The community no longer has a post office and is mostly within the address of Hemingway, South Carolina