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Jonesboro Historic District (Jonesboro, Georgia)

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Architect
  
Mansfield & Chapman

NRHP Reference #
  
72000381

Added to NRHP
  
20 January 1972

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival, Gothic

Area
  
121 ha

Jonesboro Historic District (Jonesboro, Georgia)

Location
  
GA 54 and 3, Jonesboro, Georgia

Jonesboro Historic District in Jonesboro, Georgia is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1972.

Jonesboro was the setting of much of the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind; the fictional houses Tara and Twelve Oaks were placed near it, in Clayton County.

It includes Stately Oaks, also separately listed on the NRHP, which is believed to be the inspiration for Tara.

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Jonesboro Historic District (Jonesboro, Georgia) Wikipedia


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