Count Slade de Pomeroy was once the owner of the manor and it is recorded that he often woke to the sound of tapping on the door to his bedroom. He is reported to have said that he ignored it because if he opened the door there would be nothing there. But, one time, he did in fact open the door and was shoved back by unseen hands. His housekeeper who was there at the time, said that she had seen two monks enter the room and one of them had pushed him from the doorway. They then disappeared.

1876 saw the arrival of Seth Bullock and Sol Star to Deadwood, South Dakota. Moving their hardware store from Helena, Montana, they came in a an ox-drawn wagon piled high with mining equipment, dutch ovens, frying pans and chamber pots. On the very night they arrived in the camp, Bullock began to auction equipment and supplies to the highest bidder. That was the beginning of their successful hardware store business. Soon, they bought a lot on the corner of Main and Wall Street (the current site of the Bullock Hotel) and within a year the partners built a new store and warehouse.