Bella Union Saloon

The Bella Union was a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota, and is fictionalized in the HBO television series, Deadwood. Like the television Bella Union, the real saloon was a relatively upscale establishment, where town meetings came to be held; however none of the personnel or goings-on portrayed in the show were actually real. The real Bella Union was built by Tom Miller in 1876, and in November 1878 went bankrupt and became a grocery store downstairs, and a meeting hall named Mechanics' Hall upstairs..