Cairo & Kanawha

Historical marker location:

8190 Staunton Tpk, Macfarlan, West Virginia

( Marker is on Staunton Turnpike (West Virginia Route 47) west of Smithville, on the right when traveling east.)

Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike.

The world's first federal prison exclusively for women was established in Alderson, West Virginia, in 1927.