Tara is the name of 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 east side of the Flint River about 20 miles south of Atlanta. Mitchell modeled Tara after local plantations and antebellum establishments, particularly Rural Home, the Clayton County plantation on which her maternal grandmother, Annie Fitzgerald Stephens, the daughter of Irish immigrant

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