No, Tara is not a real plantation. Tara is a fictional place in Margaret Mitchell's popular historical fiction Gone with the Wind. It is a plantation in Clayton County acquired by the fictional character Gerald O'Hara on a wager with a stranger in Savannah. Tara was Gerald O'Hara's most priced possession and he once told his daughter, Scarlett, that "Land is the only thing that lasts... the only thing worth fighting for" concerning Tara. Scarlett O'Hara would eventually come to love Tara later in the story.