Margaret Mitchell Tour Map | Atlanta, Georgia
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Few authors and books are as identified with a town as much as Margaret Mitchell and her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gone With the Wind, are with Atlanta. Born in Atlanta about 35 years after the Battle of Atlanta and the subsequent burning of the town, Mitchell literally grew up surrounded by the battle sites and history of the Civil War. The home of her maternal great-grandparents, a plantation several miles south near Jonesboro in Clayton County, was a place she frequently visited. That plantation inspired Tara, and the battle that raged in Jonesboro set the scene for the destruction that would fuel Scarlett’s fierce will to survive at all costs. Mitchell, herself, would end up writing the 1,037-page novel from apartments along Peachtree Street and basically dying in the middle of that same road.
Take this Do-It-Yourself Tour of Margaret Mitchell’s Atlanta and environs to understand the history of the Civil War in Atlanta and how that war and this town became the inspiration and the setting for one of the greatest novels of all time. CLICK HERE FOR INTERACTIVE MAP
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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.
Great site—especially the interactivity. If I’d known about this when I submitted a Margaret Mitchell article for publication (which has since appeared in print), I would have provided a link to it!