[2] The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1999.

[4][5] It was considered a major commercial and administrative center because a United States General Land Office was located there.

[6] In October and November 1833, the first public sale of Choctaw cession lands occurred in Augusta, Clinton, and Chocchuma.

[7] In the 1850s, Augusta was the site for the trial and hanging of the outlaw James Copeland.

[2] But there was little more than brick and concrete rubble where buildings had once stood, and the area had reverted to woodland.