In the years 1120-1130 Bhimavaram main road linked with its adjacent villages Vissakoderu, Undi, Peda Amiram, in and around full of mango groves, and with Palmyra, tamarind and pipal trees. Then it is a Smallwood with thorny bushes. Difficult to walk even to pedestrians. In the year 1150 some migrate families cut the trees, cleared the thorn bushes, and leveled the land to dwell and settled. It is said by the elders then Bhimavaram is neither a town nor a village. It is in between even in the year 1935.)
Bhimavaram was the site of several protests during the Salt Satyagraha Movement. The independence activist Alluri Sita Rama Raju was born in 1898 in Mogallu, a nearby village within Bhimavaram
