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DUBUQUE CASINO BELLE
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DUBUQUE CASINO BELLE. The first American flagged vessel in the United States licensed for casino gambling. The three thousand-passenger side-wheeler was built longer than a football field by the Patti Shipyard in Pensacola, Florida, for Robert KEHL.
The Belle, designed with three casinos containing over five hundred slot and poker machines and twenty-six gaming tables, received the State of Iowa's first gambling license in 1990.