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The real places in Gone with the Wind

Every location below is a real place Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is actually set in — verified against the book and mapped so you can read your way there before you go.

2 real places · grounded to Gone with the Wind

What real places is Gone with the Wind set in?

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is set in 2 real places you can visit: Atlanta and Clayton County — each a location the novel actually unfolds in.

  • Atlanta (Georgia)
  • Clayton County (Jonesboro, Georgia)

  1. Atlanta

    Georgia

    Scarlett's Atlanta rises along Peachtree Street, burns in Sherman's 1864 march, and claws its way back through Reconstruction - the city's own arc told through hers.

    See the Atlanta itinerary

  2. Clayton County

    Jonesboro, Georgia

    Tara, the O'Hara plantation, sits in the red-clay countryside of Clayton County near Jonesboro, south of Atlanta - the land Scarlett swears she will never lose, and the county Mitchell drew from her own family's farms.

Margaret Mitchell's world

See every real place Margaret Mitchell's stories are set in — one guide across all their books.

Reading your way into Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell's 1936 epic is rooted in the Georgia she grew up in: the red-clay farmland south of Atlanta and the young railroad city itself, which she watched rise, burn, and rebuild in the stories of Civil War survivors. Both settings are real places you can visit.