Note: This is NOT the official web site of Chattahoochee County or of any county officials; it is an educational web site about the history of the county courthouse and the county itself.  For the address and phone number of the courthouse and county officials, see the NaCO web page for Chattahoochee County, linked below: Address and Phone Number: See NaCO web page for Chattahoochee County Location: Cusseta Date Built: 1976 Architectural Style: Modern Designer: Biggers, Scarbrough, Neal, Crisp & Clark

Other Information: At some point after Cusseta was designated county seat, Chattahoochee County officials had the county's first courthouse erected there. A large, two-story wooden structure, the old courthouse was moved in 1974 to Westville, a composite 1850-era Georgia town consisting of restored houses and other structures in neighboring Stewart County. Here, under the sponsorship of the State Bar of Georgia, the old Chattahoochee County courthouse was restored to its original appearance (see photo). In 1975, county officials built a new one-story brick courthouse (see photo), followed by the larger county government office building adjacent to the courthouse in 1976. County Courthouse Historical Marker: Click here County History: Chattahoochee County was created on Feb. 13, 1854 by an act of the General Assembly (Ga. Laws 1853-54, p. 288). Created from Muscogee and Marion counties, Chattahoochee County's original boundaries were specified as: . . . to commence in the centre of the mouth of Upatoi Creek at the Chattahoochee River, thence up the centre of said Upatoi Creek to the old original line of Talbot County, thence South embracing two ranges of lots of land in Marion County, thence along the line dividing Muscogee and Stewart Counties to the Chattahoochee River, thence up the Chattahoochee River to the point of beginning. Georgia's 109th county was named for the Chattahoochee River, which forms its western boundary. County Seat: The legislation creating Chattahoochee County named James R. Love, William Bagby, David M. Glann, William Wooldrige, and Joshua M. Cook as commissioners to locate a site for the county seat, purchase the land, lay it off into town lots, sell the land, and use the proceeds for construction of public buildings (Ga. Laws 1853-54, p. 288). According to Kenneth Krakow, the commissioners designated the site of the county seat on April 10, 1854, and named it Cusseta, after the former Creek town and trading post of the same name. In an act of Dec. 22, 1855, the General Assembly incorporated Cusseta and designated it as permanent county seat (Ga. Laws 1855-56, p. 362). Maps Historical Maps of Chattahoochee County Georgia DOT Map of Chattahoochee County, pdf (473 K) Georgia DOT Map of Chattahoochee County, jpg (245 K) USGS Topographical Map of Chattahoochee County Size of County (Total Area): 251.2 square miles County Rank in Total Area: 123rd out of 159 Population: Chattahoochee County 14,882 (2000) Chattahoochee County Historical Population Profile City of Cusseta 1,196 (2000)

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