Historical Marker

Raiders in Buffalo

Historical marker location:
Buffalo, West Virginia
( Marker is on High Street just east of Lafayette Street (West Virginia Route 62), on the right when traveling east.)

Clashing with Jenkins. Jenkins’s Raid.

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.
West Virginia random facts