Historical Marker
Serpentine Drive
Historical marker location:
1330 Oglebay Drive, Wheeling, West Virginia
( Marker is on Oglebay Drive (West Virginia Route 88) 0.1 miles west of Lodge Drive, on the right when traveling west.)
Oglebay.
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.