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Federal ID Number: 57-1179239
As of November 27, 2002
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Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse |
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KASIHTA
(CUSSETA) |
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Kasihta
"the Peace Town of the Lower Creeks" one of the
two great Muskogee towns in the Creek
Confederation of the Indians, stood on the site
of the Generals Headquarters at Fort Benning.
Kasihta mentioned in the narrative of DeSoto's
expedition in 1540, was burned by the Spaniards
under Matheos, commander of the post at
Apalachee, in 1686 at a site on the
Chattahoochee River. Then the Kasihta with
other Lower Creek tribes moved to the Ocmulgee
River to be near the English traders but after
the Yamasee War, moved to this site where they
remained until 1836. Known to have been one of
the oldest and most important towns of the Lower
Creeks, Kasihta township, according to the
census 1832 -33 had 1,918 residents. |
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CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA |
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Chattahoochee County, created by Act of
February 13, 1854, was cut off from Muscogee and
Marion Counties. It was named for the
Chattahoochee River. Its courthouse, constructed
in 1854, was built of select heart lumber from
the Long Leaf Pine by slave labor, and is
displayed at Westville in Lumpkin, GA. First
county officers, commissioned March 11, 1854,
were: William W. Bussey - Sheriff; N. N.
Howard, Clerk - Superior Court;
Ezekiel Walters - Clerk Interior Court;
Abner Smith - Ordinary; William H. Askew
- Tax Receiver; Stephen Parkei - Tax
Collector; Littleton Morgan - Surveyor;
William S. Howard - Coroner. |
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