The creek's name comes either from enslaved people who once tilled the summer fields, or from Native Americans who found the area around the stream difficult to ford.

The park plays host to an 18-hole public golf course, which offers a pro shop, driving range, rental cars, and senior citizen discounts.

Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City fame, who played "Sunshine" in Little Darlings returned to the nearby town of Rutledge, Georgia in 2005 to film a part in the Emmy winning movie Warm Springs; a part in which she too was nominated for an Emmy award.

The Camp Rutledge facilities were featured on season 8 the show Ghost Hunters which aired in 2012,[3] and in the 2022 film They/Them.

[4] The park was temporarily utilized as an isolation and monitoring site for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 with no place to self-quarantine.