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Tara
Home of Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's novel and the 1939 movie, "Gone with the Wind"
Jonesboro, south of Atlanta, lays claim to being the inspiration for Tara, although the movie was filmed in California. Mitchell's great-grandparents lived in the area
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Tara's fields were actually a patch of the San Fernando Valley, tinted red to look like Georgia. Even the oak trees around Tara were fake, crafted from telephone poles.
-- Confederates in the Attic
Tony Horwitz
Tara's fields were actually a patch of the San Fernando Valley, tinted red to look like Georgia. Even the oak trees around Tara were fake, crafted from telephone poles.
-- Confederates in the Attic
Tony Horwitz
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“ Tara's fields were actually a patch of the San Fernando Valley, tinted red to look like Georgia. Even the oak trees around Tara were fake, crafted from telephone poles. ”
~ Confederates in the Attic
Tony Horwitz