Anna Jarvis House is a historic home located at Webster in Taylor County,

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. It was built in 1854, and is a frame

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. It is notable as the birthplace of Anna Jarvis, founder of

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, and as General

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's first field headquarters during his 1861 western Virginia campaign. It was listed on the

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in 1979.

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