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Cusseta is a town in southeastern Chambers County in east-central Alabama, situated between Opelika and Lanett.

The town was named for the ancient Creek Indian town of Cusseta that stood in the area.

The modern town developed along the Montgomery and West Point Railroad after the Creeks were forced from their land in the early 1830s, and it was first known as Blackstone after a trader named Black who built a trading post there.

Cusseta's first post office was established in 1837, the same year as Cusseta Academy, an all-male school.

Just outside town, the Fort Cusseta Historic Site preserves the remains of a log fort built by settlers in the mid-1830s during the era of Indian removal.

During the Civil War, a federal raiding party led by General James H. Wilson burned Cusseta Academy, the train depot, and the railroad tracks.

Cusseta was first incorporated as a city in 1853, but as the community shrank over the years the incorporation lapsed and was eventually forgotten.

In 2006, rediscovered documents proved the 1853 incorporation, and in 2007 Chambers County Probate Judge John Crowder signed the order reinstating the Town of Cusseta, whose first council met in an old one-room schoolhouse.

Pat Garrett, the lawman famed for killing the outlaw Billy the Kid, was born near Cusseta in 1850.

The 2020 census counted 152 residents in Cusseta, up from 123 in 2010.