As with other Six Flags parks, it features themes from the Warner Bros. Entertainment library, including characters from Looney Tunes and DC Comics.

[4] The land chosen was the site of the oldest permanent agricultural village in Georgia, home to Muscogee farmers from 200 BC to 500 AD.

The park's live entertainment offerings included a dolphin show, the Krofft Puppet Theater and the Athenaeum, later renamed the Crystal Pistol.

[10] After a successful first season, plans were set in motion to expand the park, and adjustments were made to existing attractions based on visitor feedback.

[citation needed] In the early 1970s, Six Flags began augmenting its supply of costumed characters with creations from various Sid & Marty Krofft television series.

[10] In Lickskillet, the Drunken Barrels flat ride had replaced the Wheel Burrow, and in 1972 Six Flags debuted the fully-restored Riverview Carousel on a hilltop adjacent to the section.

[10] In 1969, general manager Earl McKoy first proposed that the park install a wooden roller coaster, an idea to which Angus Wynne wasn't very receptive.

[13] After the end of that season, the Happy Motoring Freeway was removed to make way for the Great Gasp parachute drop, which would be the park's new attraction for 1976.

[20] On September 1, 2016, the park announced that an all new dark ride named Justice League: Battle For Metropolis would replace Dodge City Bumper Cars.

In December 2024, Six Flags announced that they would take full ownership on the park and White Water from its partners for $332 million, of which the transition will occur at the beginning of January 2027.

Goliath and The Riddler Mindbender routinely rank among the top steel roller coasters listed by Amusement Today magazine in its Golden Ticket Awards.

The collection expanded most recently in 2025 with the addition of Georgia Gold Rusher, the world's first Ultra Surf roller coaster from Intamin.

Batman: The Ride has been the scene of two fatal incidents nearly identical in nature, where individuals were underneath the attraction while it was operational and were struck and killed by the train itself or by the riders' exposed legs.

According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, multiple people began shooting, hitting an unoccupied CCPD marked patrol car.