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Rural Home, also known as the Fitzgerald House, was a plantation house in Clayton County, Georgia. Built in the 1830s, the house was acquired by Philip Fitzgerald, a planter and Irish immigrant, in 18
Rural Home circa 1920. The woman on the porch is probably Margaret Mitchell.
Tara (fictional plantation)
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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 from Jonesboro, in Clayton County, on the
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…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. It was looted but ultimately withstood Sherman's March to the Sea during the American Civil War and functioned as a…
Tara in the film Gone with the Wind, with Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in the foreground
Monmouth, which inspired the exterior of Tara in the film