The land lies a few miles away, just outside the town of Toomsboro.ĪSHLEY SCOTT: I came down to Toomsboro after the whole unrest and the pandemic and George Floyd being murdered and Ahmaud Arbery being murdered and then feeling really just like, where do we go from here? - and kind of depressed in a way, to the point where I actually was even seeing a Black psychologist.įADEL: Scott and I walk up the hill of the about 97 acres the families purchased last year. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: It's good to see you, Miss Joanne.įADEL: Wilkinson County is also the place that Ashley Scott's family and 18 other Black families - they live in the metro Atlanta area - chose to buy a plot of land to eventually build a new city, the city of Freedom. It's where she works, and it's one of the few places in town to gather, other than the dollar store across the street. That's Tiara Thomas, taking a break outside the only gas station in the county seat, Irwinton. Everybody hollering.įADEL: Everybody hugging. THOMAS: Oh, yeah, we are - we know everybody. I feel like everybody's saying hello and hugging, and (laughter). TIARA THOMAS: All of us pretty much know each other around here. Two hours southeast of Atlanta, it's one of those places - almost that cliche of small-town America. Just under 9,000 people live in Wilkinson County.
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