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The birthplace home of Margaret Mitchell, author of the legendary "Gone With the Wind" book about the South in the U.S. Civil War, in Pine Bluff, once a vibrant and prosperous city in the rich, agricultural south-central Arkansas

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  1. America
  2. Arkansas
  3. Color
  4. Digital Photographs
  5. Gone With The Wind Book
  6. Houses
  7. Jefferson County
  8. Margaret Mitchell
  9. Pine Bluff
  10. United States

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