Warehouse

Historical marker location:

120 Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Potomac Street, 0.1 miles north of Shenandoah Street, on the right when traveling north.)

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.