Epiphany, South Dakota

Epiphany was established between 1889 and 1892. The settlement was named by Bishop Martin Marty,^[2] and its post office was established in July 1892.^[3]

In 1893 Father William Kroeger, a Catholic priest and medical doctor, arrived in Epiphany, where he established a medical "sanitarium", making medicines (which he sold by mail order) and treating a variety of diseases. Many people came from across the United States and foreign countries to be cured of different ailments, with perhaps 300–400 staying in Epiphany at the business's height.^[4] There was a bus line that meet trains at Canova. William Kroeger also established the first electric power plant in Epiphany, an artificial ice plant, a bank of which he was the sole owner, and a factory for making paper boxes.^[2]