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Last updated May 16 2021.
You'll probably recognise it as the mansion seen before the titles of classic David O Selznick productions. It's at 9336 Washington Boulevard between Ince and Van Buren, Culver City. The white, classical Washington Boulevard frontage of the studio was used, with a little matte painting, for the entrance to 'Twelve Oaks'.http://movie-locations.com/movies/g/Gone-With-The-Wind.php
In the novel 'Gone with the Wind,' the plantation was founded by Irish immigrant Gerald O'Hara when he won a section (640 acres) of land from its absentee owner during an all-night poker game. Very much an Irish peasant farmer rather than the merchant his elder brothers (whose emigrations to Savannah brought him to Georgia) wanted him to be, Gerald relished the thought of being a planter and gave his mostly wilderness and uncultivated new lands the grandiose name of Tara after the Hill of Tara, once the capitol of the High King of ancient Ireland. He borrowed money from his brothers and bankers to buy slaves and over several years turned the farm into a very successful cotton plantation.
The Hill of Tara (Irish Teamhair na Rí, "Hill of the King"), located near the River Boyne, is a long, low limestone ridge that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Leinster, Ireland. It contains a number of ancient monuments, and, according to tradition, was the seat of Árd Rí na hÉireann, or the High King of Ireland.
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