Chambers County AlArchives History .....Marker For Fort Cusseta March 18, 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bobby Meadows brmeadows@hotmail.com March 18, 2006, 2:12 pm Book Title: Fort Cusseta Chambers County Following the signing of the creek treaty in 1832. The early white settlers constructed a 16 by 30 foot hand hewn log fort for protection against a possible indian upristing from cussetaw indian village on osanippa creek just north of here. Walls of fort were 4 and 6 feet high, with Portholes at height of 4 feet, still visible after 140 years. Last known fort of its kind in southeast. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/chambers/history/other/markerfo42ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb