Historical Marker
The Athenaeum
Historical marker location:
1704 Market Street, Wheeling, West Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of 16th Street (West Virginia Route 2) and Market Street, on the right when traveling east on 16th Street.)
<i>"Lincoln's Bastille"</i>.
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.