Hey, Mary, My mother's family is from Brindlee Mountain--the DODDs and the MONKs. Do/did you know any of them? Anne >If there WAS BLACK SANDY SOIL on Sand Mountain, it was sure gone by the >time I was born in 1933. Most of the good farms (those not taken by the >TVA) were in the valley between Sand Mountain & Brindlee Mountain (where I >grew up). Both mountains have pale yellow sandy soil. We always heard >about the black dirt in the black belt in the southern third of the state >and envied their bountiful crops. Mary