In the spring of 1836, the company of Jones King and Company of Chicago, Illinois sent a group of men to Manitowoc to clear a site for settlement. The company was formed to speculate land in Northeast Wisconsin and soon worked under the name of the Manitowoc Land Company. The group landed in Manitowoc on May 1 on the schooner “Wisconsin”.

It was rumored that after her death, "a figure in white had nightly been seen hovering about her former abode, and that sweet strains of music had softly floated from there, borne of the midnight air. However that may be, certain it is that this spot ever held something for mystic for the passerby, especially in the sway of the moon when rising vapors from the river bottoms, assuming fantastic forms, lent flights to one’s imagination.”

“Hence the derivation of the name, that of Phantom Hallow.”