The community was named for the fact the original town site was an
Indian old field. Other buildings of interest in the vicinity include Old Fields Church (1812; the second-oldest church in West Virginia), Fort Pleasant, the Isaac Van.Meter House built in the 1810's, the
Garrett Van Meter House (1835),
Willow Wall (1812),
Buena Vista (1836), built for William T. Van Meter (killed in
Gen. Wade Hampton’s “
Beefsteak Raid” behind Union lines near
Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864), Traveler’s Rest (1856; constructed for Garrett Van Meter’s three unmarried sisters: Ann, Rebecca, and Susan), and the
Peter Casey house, where George Washington spent the night as a boy on his surveying trip for Lord Fairfax in 1748. ==References==