Town of Epiphany

The bishop who named Epiphany had come to Dakota as a missionary. Martin Marty, born in Canton Schwyz, Switzerland, in 1834 and a Benedictine of Einsiedeln, was first abbot of St. Meinrad in Indiana before he left in July 1876 for Standing Rock to work among the Lakota, whose Hunkpapa band called him Black Robe Lean Chief. Leo XIII made him vicar apostolic of Dakota in 1879 and, on November 26, 1889, first bishop of the new Diocese of Sioux Falls, the years in which the plaque places Epiphany's founding. He died at St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1896.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village — 20 mi
  A fortified farming village of about seventy earth lodges above Firesteel Creek a thousand years ago, ancestral to the Mandan, still being excavated under a dome.
• Corn Palace — 20 mi
  The last survivor of more than thirty corn palaces built across the Midwest, a basketball arena with domes by a Chicago theater firm, covered every year in new murals of corn.

More markers nearby

• Fedora Independent Consolidated School District No. 1 — 13 mi
• Howard Public Library, First Chartered Library in Dakota Territory — 13 mi
• Salem Rest Area — 18 mi
• Firesteel — 18 mi