Augusta is a home rule-class city[3] in Bracken County, Kentucky, in the United States.

[5] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

Augusta was founded by Philip Buckner in 1786 as a trading post along the Ohio River.

The county seat was moved to Oxford, then back to Augusta, then finally to Brooksville in 1839.

In 1862, Confederate Colonel Basil W. Duke attacked the town as part of the Kentucky Campaign.

While he was able to drive off a pair of Union gunboats in the Ohio River and defeat the local Unionist militia in house-to-house fighting, heavy losses forced him to abandon plans to cross into Ohio.

The most famous built was the Augusta College, which served the entire Bracken area until 1887 when the high school was moved into that spot.

Augusta is headed by the mayor and a City Council with six members and an attorney that preside at the meetings.

There is no limit to the number of terms either the Mayor or the City Council can serve.

Augusta is home to a Berry Global manufacturing facility that makes plastic films.