[1] One of the earliest known records of white Europeans being aware of the village inhabitants is an 1839 map depicting a 'Nickajack Creek' converging with the Chattahoochee River south and west of the Standing Peachtree settlement.

Robert Mable, founder of Mableton, assisted in building a gristmill owned by Henry Clay Ruff in the 1850s.

On July 4, 1864, Union and Confederate troops clashed at Nickajack Creek in the Battle of Ruff's Mill.

After the war, the Concord Manufacturing Company established a woolen mill on the stream in 1869 and made a significant economic contribution to Cobb County.

It is one of the few remaining covered bridges in Georgia, and still highly active today after it was later buttressed to handle automobile traffic.