Wedgefield, SC

Wedgefield is an unincorporated community and census designated place in the High Hills of Santee area in western Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. Wedgefield is also a Census Designated Place. Wedgefield was so named because its location was likened to a "wedge" into the High Hills of Santee. Wedgefield's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider South Carolina setting. The local scoop is how Wedgefield's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.

In the 18th and 19th centuries it was the location of many plantations, notably those of the Singleton family, which produced First Lady of the United States, Angelica Singleton Van Buren. Today the plantations are gone except for their cemeteries and Wedgefield is today noted as the location of a state park, a state forest and other recreational places. South Carolina Highway 261, Kings Highway, is the main north–south road in Wedgefield.