Atlanta History Center | Atlanta, Georgia
130 W. Paces Ferry Rd.Atlanta GA 30305
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Located on 33 prime acres in the heart of Buckhead, the Atlanta History Center, one of the largest history museums in the Southeast, celebrates Atlanta's Southern culture. There are two historic houses on the grounds: the 1845 Tullie Smith Farm and the elegant Swan House. The center also includes the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games Museum, historic gardens, and the Kenan Research Center on its campus as well as the Margaret Mitchell House on its midtown campus.
You'll see numerous temporary and permanent displays, including those on the Civil War, the history of Atlanta, legendary golfer Bobby Jones, and Southern folk art.
VIEW INTERACTIVE MAP The Margaret Mitchell House on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta is part of the Atlanta History Center. Take a Do-It-Yourself Tour of Margaret Mitchell's Atlanta and environs.
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Margaret Mitchell’s Tara
Margaret Mitchell may have written her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from a small, first-floor apartment at 10th and Peachtree streets in Atlanta, but the story was born from the red clay backroads that once wound mostly through Clayton and Fayette counties. Browse the photo gallery below to see some of the places in Atlanta, Jonesboro and Fayetteville that tell the story of Margaret Mitchell and Gone With the Wind.
For more about Mitchell and Gone With the Wind, see the Brown's Guide blogs: In Search of Margaret Mitchell's Tara, Tara, Margaret Mitchell and the Flint River, and Where Was Margaret Mitchell's Tara, Really?
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In Search of Margaret Mitchell’s Tara
Margaret Mitchell may have written her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gone With the Wind from a small first-floor apartment at 10th and Peachtree streets in Atlanta, but the story was born from the red clay backroads that once wound mostly through Georgia’s Clayton and Fayette counties.
Tara, Margaret Mitchell and the Flint River
The Flint River is only a 20-foot wide, winding stream between Fayette and Clayton counties, but this portion of it has played an integral part in literary history—it bordered the fictional Tara in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.
Where Was Margaret Mitchell’s Tara, Really?
Hollywood director David O. Selznick's celluloid version of Tara was not exactly what Margaret Mitchell had in mind when she wrote her epic Civil War novel, Gone With the Wind.
