[1] It was one of the two major towns of the Lower Creek, with a population of 1,918 in 1832.
According to Muscogee oral history, early Creek from Ocmulgee settled Cusseta and Coweta, approximately around 900–1000 CE.
[1] At the town on 24 March 1832, representatives of the Creek Nation signed the Treaty of Cusseta, ceding all the Nation's lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States as part of Indian Removal.
Lawson Army Airfield in Fort Benning, Georgia was developed on the former site of Cusseta.
The modern-day municipality of Cusseta, Georgia is named after the Muscogee Creek town and located closest to the historic site.