Old Stone House / Star Lodge No. 1

Historical marker location:

Charles Town, West Virginia

( Marker is on South Lawrence Street, 0.1 miles south of West Washington Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2003

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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.