Gone With the Wind Mansion Sells at Auction!

Posted: September 15, 2019 | Source: finance.yahoo.com

Twelve Oaks in Covington, Georgia, the inspiration for Ashley Wilkes’ plantation home in Gone With the Wind has sold at auction. The book’s author, Margaret Mitchell, came across a photograph of the 1836 mansion in the Atlanta Journal, cut it out and mailed it to the film’s producer, David Selznick, with notations that it was identical to the house that she envisioned for the book’s character Ashley Wilkes.