Before white settlement, the rich bottomlands around Big and Little Allatoona Creeks were farmed by the Cherokee and earlier Indigenous communities.

These smooth, bowl-like depressions carved into a rock along Allatoona Creek in northwest Cobb were used by Indigenous peoples to grind acorns, nuts, and corn. A lasting connection to these early inhabitants, these “bedrock mortars” can be found at Leone Hall Price Park off Stilesboro Road.