Bibb City was founded in 1903 and incorporated in 1909 specifically to serve the needs of workers at the Bibb City Mills, which were located in the middle of the new town. It was a professionally planned model company town, offering housing, schools, a clinic, businesses, recreational facilities (including a swimming pool and Comer Auditorium), a hotel for single women who worked at the Mills and churches, all within walking distance of where most of its residents worked. As the desegregation movement grew, the Mills discontinued support for the social activities and in 1964 began selling the houses, mainly to the families who had lived in them up to that time. In December of 2000, following the closure of the Mills, Bibb City gave up its charter and was annexed by the Columbus/Muscogee County Consolidated Government