Editing Lovejoy, Georgia (section)

==History==
Around 1850, the location just north of [[Fosterville, Georgia]] was positioned along the new railway from Atlanta to Macon. The trainstop there was named for a prosperous local planter, James Lankford Lovejoy. On early maps, the location is called "Lovejoys."<ref>[https://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/histcountymaps/henry1863map.htm 1863 Map]</ref> It became known as Lovejoy's Station by 1864, where it was the setting of a civil war battle during Sherman's campaign through Georgia. James Lovejoy left the region and died in Clinch County, Georgia in 1877.

The [[Georgia General Assembly]] incorporated Lovejoy as a town in 1891.<ref>{{cite book|title=Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mRE4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA806|year=1892|publisher=J. Johnston|page=806}}</ref>

Lovejoy was the site of a [[cotton gin]] until 1932.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us {{!}} Lovejoy, GA - Official Website |url=https://www.cityoflovejoy.com/863/About-Us#:~:text=Lovejoy%20was%20the%20site%20of,of%20a%20quarter-horse%20farm. |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=www.cityoflovejoy.com}}</ref>

In 1979, [[Betty Talmadge]], former first-lady of Georgia, purchased the remnants of the Hollywood set "[[Tara (plantation)|Tara]]," the fictional plantation featured in [[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone With the Wind]], and brought them to Lovejoy.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150909175247/http://oldgeorgiahomes.com/2015/02/tara-from-gone-with-the-wind-tour-and-lovejoy-plantation Tara from Gone With The Wind Tour and Lovejoy Plantation] Archived from [https://oldgeorgiahomes.com/2015/02/tara-from-gone-with-the-wind-tour-and-lovejoy-plantation/ the original] on 2015-09-09. Retrieved on 2023-02-23.</ref> The main road through Lovejoy is named "Tara Blvd." The remnants of Tara are available to be toured at the Lovejoy Plantation.