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Andrews United Methodist Church and International Mother's Day Shrine

E. Main St. between St. John and Luzader Sts.
Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia, 26354


The first Mother's Day was celebrated here on May 10, 1908 inspired by Ann Jarvis, who had been active in Mother's Day campaigns for peace and worker's safety and health since end of American Civil War.

The church was constructed in 1873.

The building was incorporated as the International Mother's Day Shrine on May 15, 1962.

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