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
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
Twelve Oaks
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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 m
Tara (fictional plantation)
…two-story wooden structure, was not as palatial and glamorous as the one described in the novel or that depicted in the 1939 movie Gone with the Wind. Twelve Oaks, a neighboring plantation in the novel, is now the name of many businesses and a high school stadium in nearby Lovejoy, Georgia. In Gone with the Wind…
Picture of the Atlantic Journal article of the home representing The Twelve Oaks that Margaret Mitchell found