The detailed chronicles of the Hernando de Soto expedition recorded visiting Ichisi, a major village, in 1539.

[3] For centuries, the historic Native Americans Muscogee tribe, descendants of this culture, was the predominant one in a large area of Georgia, including that later organized as Bibb County.

With European-American land hunger to extend cotton cultivation in the Georgia uplands, the Muscogee and other four Civilized Tribes of the Southeast were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, in the Indian Removal of the 1830s, during the administration of President Andrew Jackson.

The Indian tribes affected refer to their journey is as the "Trail of Tears", since many died during the march west.

Bibb is considered one of the counties of the "Black Belt", which originally referred to the fertile dark soil in these uplands.

Cotton generated high profits, since it was in demand in the textile mills of the northern states and England.

During the Civil War, an estimated 10% of the white males in the county lost their lives while serving in the Confederate States Army.

It was subject to related vagaries of weather, financial markets, and the devastation of the invasive boll weevil in the early 20th century, which destroyed cotton crops across the South.

On July 31, 2012, voters in the City of Macon (57.8% approval) and Bibb County (56.7% approval) passed a referendum to merge the governments of the city and the county, based on the authorization of House Bill 1171 passed by the Georgia General Assembly earlier in the year.

[6][7][8] The consolidation took effect on January 1, 2014, along with the deannexation from the city of a small portion of land in Jones County.

The combination of these two contrasting affiliations resulted in the majority of county voters having supported for a Republican presidential candidate only three times in its history.

Sandy Beach has lighted tennis courts, a water park with many attractions, and a softball field.