Lewis and Clark

Historical marker location:

Wheeling, West Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of 14th Street and Main Street, on the right when traveling south on 14th Street.)

Marker installed: 2000

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.