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The Lt. ROBERT E. LEE was built in the late 1960´s by the James B. Eads Corp. using an old USACE boat. She was Fred Leyhe´s dream of the perfect steamboat although this was never a running boat but only a replica. Fred Leyhe was the son of Capt. Buck Leyhe one of the owners of the famous Eagle Packet Company. The Lt. ROBERT E. LEE served since 1970 as a floating restaurant at the St. Louis riverfront until it was sold and moved to Kimmswick where it reopened as a restaurant in 2004. Unfortunately closed now again. Rumors say it’ll be sold to St. Charles, MO.
Directions:
The Lieutenant Robert E. Lee
Riverboat Dining & Saloon
6060 Mississippi (waterfront)
Kimmswick, MO
Follow the signs in Kimmswick.
Satellite picture and map at Google Maps:
Kimmswick
