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Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall is located in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi.Officially known as a riverboat casino because the gaming area is situated on a building built on barges that float in a pool of water linked to the nearby Mississippi River as required by state law, the resort in all other aspects resembles its Nevada sibling, except for the atrium.
Tunica Resorts, [3] formerly known as Robinsonville until 2005, [citation needed] is a census-designated place (CDP) in northern Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, north of the county seat of Tunica. The community is situated mostly between the Mississippi River and U.S. Route 61, along the border with Arkansas.
The Tunica Museum is a museum in Tunica, Mississippi dedicated to the history of Tunica County.Founded in 1997 and funded by casino gambling revenues, it has 6,500 square feet (600 m 2) of permanent exhibit space and 1,600 square feet (150 m 2) of temporary exhibit space, which showcase historically aspects of the region including race relations, Native American settlements, and the daily life ...
Tunica is a town in and the county seat of Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, near the Mississippi River. Until the early 1990s when casino gambling was introduced in the area, Tunica had been one of the most impoverished places in the United States. Despite this economic improvement, Tunica's population continues to decline from its ...
All the communities near Tunica Lake are located in Mississippi. The present-day town of Austin was historically located directly along the east bank of Fox Island Bend. In 1884, the area was flooded when a nearby levee broke, and when the floodwaters receded, steamboats could no longer land because a large sandbar had been left between Austin and the Mississippi River.
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Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, $5, $4 children 3-18; 1550 Lakeland Drive, Jackson; (601) 432-4500 or www.msagmuseum.org Mississippi Museum of Art at 380 S. Lamar Street, Jackson ...
Commerce was founded in 1834, and became the county seat in 1836. It incorporated in 1839, and was the first town in Tunica County. [4] There is a story about artist John Banvard stopping at Commerce as he traveled the Mississippi River with a floating exhibition of his paintings during the 1840s. When a local "official" in Commerce attempted ...