<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Tara is the name of a fictional plantation in the state of Georgia, in the historical novel Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell . In the story, Tara is located 5 miles (8 km) from Jonesboro (originally spelled Jonesborough), in Clayton County, on the east side of the Flint River about 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta . </P> <P> Mitchell modeled Tara after local plantations and antebellum establishments, particularly the Clayton County plantation on which her maternal grandmother, Annie Fitzgerald Stephens (1844--1934), the daughter of Irish immigrant Philip Fitzgerald (1798--1880) and his American wife, Eleanor Avaline "Ellen" McGhan (1818--1893), was born and raised . However, the original plantation house of the Fitzgeralds, which was known as "Rural Home," a two - story wooden structure, was not as palatial and glamorous as the one described in the novel and / or depicted in the 1939 movie Gone with the Wind . </P>

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