Indian old field

Indian Old Field, or simply Old Field, was a common term used in Colonial American times and up until the early nineteenth century United States, by American explorers, surveyors, cartographers and settlers, in reference to land formerly cleared and utilized by indigenous or previous occupants for farming (corn fields or vegetable patches) or occupation.^[1] The term appears in many old maps and land documents, often persisting for many decades. It also remains in a number of present-day place names of the Eastern US.