![]() A capacity crowd arrived to welcome this new entertainment venue to the community. On March 7, 1991, the then-Potawatomi Bingo opened its doors for the first time. The development was Potawatomi Casino Hotel (then Potawatomi Bingo), the first off-reservation casino in the country and still the only one of its kind in the state of Wisconsin. This remained a desolate area until the Forest County Potawatomi regained some of this territory and became the first to invest in refurbishing the land, bringing new development to the Menomonee Valley. ![]() Many years later the Valley served as an industrial center, and later became blighted and deteriorated into toxic brown fields. ![]() At that time, the Valley flourished with natural resources and provided a bounty for many Native American tribes. The Potawatomi tribe first occupied the Menomonee Valley hundreds of years ago.
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