Historical Marker

Sandstone School

Historical marker location:
330 Meadows Creek Road, Sandstone, West Virginia
( Marker is on Meadows Creek Road.)

New River Gorge National River.

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.