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Picture of the Atlantic Journal article of the home representing The Twelve Oaks that Maragaret Mitchell found. In Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, Twelve Oaks is the plantation home of the Wilkes family in Clayton County, Georgia named for the twelve great oak trees that surround the family mansion in an almost perfect circle.
Tara is a fictional plantation in the state of Georgia, in the historical novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.In the story, Tara is located 5 miles (8 km) from Jonesboro (originally spelled Jonesborough), in Clayton County, on the east side of the Flint River about 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta.
The expansive main hallway — 62 feet wide and 65 feet long — sweeps you back in time to the antebellum home of Junius and Matilda Ward. ... prototype for Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the ...
Rural Home was the childhood home of Annie Fitzgerald Stephens, the grandmother of author Margaret Mitchell, and was the center of a large cotton plantation. The plantation served as inspiration for Mitchell's fictional Tara Plantation in her novel Gone With the Wind.
Stately Oaks Plantation is a Greek Revival antebellum mansion located in Margaret Mitchell Memorial Park in Jonesboro, Georgia. Built in 1839, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [1] It is also known as Orr House, The Oaks, and Robert McCord House and it is included in the Jonesboro Historic District.
In U.S. Army terms, rows of once spectacular homes that have graced historic Fort Leavenworth for more than 100 years stand in defeat. Like downtrodden troops, grand houses of red brick or yellow ...
Scarlett O'Hara uses the title phrase when she wonders if her home on a plantation called "Tara" is still standing or if it had "gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia". [16] In a general sense, the title is a metaphor for the demise of a way of life in the South before the Civil War.
The hostess and homeowner was Hattie McDaniel, who, in 1939, became the first African American to win the Oscar, for her role as Mammy in “Gone With the Wind.”