Historical Marker
Cool Spring Presbyterian Church
Historical marker location:
2956 Runnymeade Rd, Gerrardstown, West Virginia
( Marker is on Runnymeade Road (County Road 26) 0.4 miles west of Goldmiller Road (County Road 24), on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1954
The first Mother's Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia in 1908. Anna Jarvis, a resident of Grafton, held a memorial for her mother, who had died two years earlier, and campaigned for a national holiday in honor of all mothers. Mother's Day became a national holiday in 1914.