We Are Here

In 1816, in a swampland in northeastern North Carolina, Josiah Collins plants his dream. This is the story of how his unlikely dream becomes the third largest slave-holding plantation in North Carolina, and one of the largest plantations of the upper South. Eighty years pass under the ownership of Josiah Collins, I, II, and III, hundreds of acres of swamp become fields of crops and sawmill operations. The plantation is changed forever by the Civil War, and Josiah Collins IV becomes the firs...