Triple Brick Museum

Historical marker location:

313 East John Street, Martinsburg, West Virginia

( Marker can be reached from East John Street east of South Water Street, on the right when traveling west.)

313 East John Street. Built 1874.

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.