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South of Gulfport on Ship Island, in Gulf Islands National Seashore 30°12′36″N 88°58′23″W / 30.21°N 88.9731°W / 30.21; -88.9731 ( Fort Massachusetts Gulfport
The Island View is the successor to the Copa Casino, which was first located on a docked cruise ship and then a barge-based building at the Mississippi State Docks, across U.S. Highway 90 (Beach Blvd.) from the current location. The Copa and its neighbor, Grand Casino Gulfport, were both destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Within 15 years, Love and his staff had transformed Gulf Coast tourism by attracting more than 100 conventions to the hotel each year. During summers, the hotel hosted Mississippi's Miss Hospitality Pageant, and business thrived through the 1950s. In 1958, a new motel style addition was added on the beach side of the hotel, south of U.S. Route 90.
List of casinos in the U.S. state of Mississippi; Casino City County State District Type Comments Ameristar Casino Vicksburg: Vicksburg: Warren: Mississippi: Lower River Region: Bally's Vicksburg
Mississippi, and Biloxi with it, was admitted as a state to the union in 1817. Biloxi began to grow. In the antebellum period of the 19th century, it became known as a summer resort due to its proximity to the breezes and beaches of the coast. It also had the advantages of proximity to New Orleans and ease of access via water.
Interest in Ramsey Springs Hotel waned after World War II, because the Mississippi Gulf Coast, from Gulfport to Biloxi, experienced development of motels and hotels and construction of a sandy beach-front along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, which was paralleled by U.S. Highway 90. In 1961, the Ramsey Springs Hotel was demolished.