Our property lies just about midway ‘twixt’ Dale ‘Holler’ and Cumberland Lake. Just driving around in the area you’ll see far more idle wells than active ones-I’d say the ratio is about 5 or 6 to 1. According to some of the old-timers in the area, back in the early ‘70’s when first discovered there was quite a lot of activity. But it was never anything like on the scale of say LA, Texas, or OK. Sadly, it’s all ‘pert near petered out’ now.
My folks lived in a mining town in the NC mountains. Our 5 mile driveway was lined in spar and the isenglass made it real purty. (spar=feldspar, isenglass = mica).
I remember a woman asking the man in the store where the serial (cereal) was. Nobody in the place had any idea what she wanted. The surreal was in the back.