One of twenty-two coal mines operating in the area in the early 1900's, the Mount-Olive-Staunton Coal Company Number 2 was sunk in 1904 and began production in 1907.  It closed in 1957.  Mined with the room and pillar panel method of extraction the Number 2 mine was the largest Herrin mine in the area.

In 1910 the total coal production from the local mines was over 4 million tons with over 4600 men employed in the shafts. 

After the mine closed, Mobile Mineral Resources, Inc. worked with the Abandoned Mined Lands Reclamation Council to reclaim Number 2 and then donated the land to a local area Boy Scout organization for recreational use in 1989.

The Boy Scouts sold the property into private ownership in 1996.  Ten years later, David and Susan Wesa found the property while searching for acreage to start a Vineyard in hopes of fulfilling a retirement dream of owning a Winery.  And now...by God's grace the dream has begun.