Everyone who has ever dreamed of owning Tara, or at least a piece of the history of the Old South, now has – not one but two – opportunities, assuming that person has the cash or the credit to swing the deal: for one, only $875,000 plus whatever it takes to refurbish a building that is little more than the solid stone structure itself, heated mostly with wood and in need of upgraded amenities such as plumbing and electricity.

Harmony Hall, the original plantation after which was named the town of Harmony, later to be renamed Hamilton, sits just east of the town limits on old Rt 7 about half a mile below the Beautiful South. With 3 huge stone chimneys and 6 fireplaces, this old fieldstone mansion boasts wide double decker front porches, the very image of Tara itself. The 6 acre property comes with a pre-revolutionary war log cabin, now covered with siding but habitable. A two-level stone smoke house, a spring house, and a chicken house also come with the parcel. Since they were Quakers, no slave house was required.

The main house was built in 3 sections the first by Richard Tavenner, probably around 1820. Records are not exact. His father, George Tavenner, had built a separate mansion back in 1788, Wynemeade, near the Winodee subdevelopment and which is sometimes confused with Harmony Hall.

Making Harmony Hall look like a steal, Thomas and Talbot, the realtors handling the estate, also have for sale, at a slightly larger figure of $7.5 million, the estate called "Old Welbourne" in Upperville. This is not the antebellum mansion "Welbourne" near St Louis where F Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe used to visit and where on a window pane surviving since the Civil War can be seen scratched JEB Stuart's initials. It is instead its cousin a few miles down the road. Built in the 1850s, so authentically antebellum, the mansion of this 328 acre working farm has 10' ceilings, 5 baths, 8 fireplaces, and a barn with numerous outbuildings. Two tenant houses also come with the price, but no mention is made of slave quarters.

Part of the property's claim to history is its ownership by the Delaney Family which first settled this area and whose original 4 room dwelling lies in ruins near the old family graveyard on the estate.

Sic Semper Virginia.