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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.
In May 1993, the company received preliminary approval for a casino to be built near Tunica, Mississippi. [16] Fitzgeralds Tunica opened in June 1994, at a cost of $46 million. [17] [18] A hotel was added to the casino in 1996 at a cost of $34 million. [18]
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Tunica is the fourth community to serve as county seat of Tunica County, [4] succeeding earlier county seats at Commerce (1839–1842, 1842–1847), Peyton (1842, temporary) and Austin (1847–1888). [5] Tunica gained national attention for its deprived neighborhood known as "Sugar Ditch Alley", named for the open sewer located there. [6]
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Resorts Casino Tunica, formerly Southern Belle Casino and Harrah's Tunica Mardi Gras Casino, was a 201-room hotel and a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m 2) casino located in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi. It was one of three casinos located in the "Casino Strip" area, along with Sam's Town and Hollywood Casino .
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