Journey's End

Historical marker location:

1194 Carnifex Ferry Crossing, Keslers Cross Lanes, West Virginia

( Marker is on Carnifex Ferry Crossing (County Route 23) 1 mile south of Summersville Lake Road (West Virginia Route 129), on the right when traveling south.)

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.