Sightseeing Tours - Atlanta

The Margaret Mitchell House
The Margaret Mitchell House and Gone With the Wind Museum offer a look into the life of the renowned author and a chance to revisit Atlanta in 1939 for the three-day gala that surrounded the premier of the movie made from the book Mitchell wrote. The guided tour begins in the Visitors Center, then takes you through the house Mitchell called "The Dump" and expands on our view of the author, including information on her other career as a columnist for the Atlanta Journal.

	It was in an apartment in this building that Mitchell and her second husband, John Marsh, lived while she wrote her masterpiece, Gone With The Wind. The novel, completed in 1929 would remain unpublished until 1936. In 1932 Mitchell moved to a larger apartment, where she was living when her novel was published.
The Gone With the Wind Museum, included in the entrance fee, is a modest look at both the making of the movie and the movie itself and life in Atlanta in December, 1939. The outstanding exhibit in the museum is the door from the original Tara, on loan from the Talmadge family of Swainsboro.

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