Qualla: Glen Ferris Inn https://qualla.com/glen-ferris-inn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/glen-ferris-inn-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Glen Ferris Inn https://qualla.com/glen-ferris-inn Glen Ferris Inn: Introduction https://qualla.com/glen-ferris-inn/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. It might be as old as 1815. The earliest section of the Glen Ferris Inn - a three-story painted-brick block on the bank of the Kanawha River, looking out over the wide cascade of Kanawha Falls - was built sometime in the early nineteenth century to serve travelers on the stagecoach road between the Ohio River and the Virginia heartland. Documentation is incomplete; even the original builder's name is uncertain. The building has been called Stockton's Inn, Stockton's Tavern, Hawkins's Hotel, and finally the Glen Ferris Inn. It served stagecoach passengers in the antebellum era. It became a Union quartermaster's depot during the Civil War. It housed managers and workers when the early twentieth century built hydroelectric and aluminum plants on the falls below. Two centuries on, after a long closure, it reopened in 2018 and is again taking reservations.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/glen-ferris-inn-wp/dny1-glen-ferris-inn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Glen Ferris Inn: Stagecoach Road https://qualla.com/glen-ferris-inn/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. Before the railroads pushed through the New River Gorge in the 1870s, the principal route from the Ohio Valley into central Virginia followed the Kanawha River upstream from the Ohio. Stagecoaches stopped at relay stations every fifteen or twenty miles to change horses, feed pass...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/glen-ferris-inn-wp/dny1-glen-ferris-inn-stagecoach-road.mp3 0:06 2 full Glen Ferris Inn: Civil War Depot https://qualla.com/glen-ferris-inn/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. When the Civil War came to the Kanawha Valley, the building was commandeered by the Union Army as a quartermaster's depot. The Kanawha route was strategically important - it connected the western Virginia coalfields to the Ohio River and was contested by both sides through 1861 a...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/glen-ferris-inn-wp/dny1-glen-ferris-inn-civil-war-depot.mp3 0:06 3 full Glen Ferris Inn: Industrial Boom on the Falls https://qualla.com/glen-ferris-inn/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. In the early twentieth century, the Kanawha Falls just below the inn became one of West Virginia's earliest hydroelectric sites. A dam was built across the falls. Power generated there fed an aluminum plant operated successively by Electro-Metallurgical Company, Union Carbide, an...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/glen-ferris-inn-wp/dny1-glen-ferris-inn-industrial-boom-on-the-falls.mp3 0:06 4 full Glen Ferris Inn: Reopened in 2018 https://qualla.com/glen-ferris-inn/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. The building had been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1991, but listing does not pay maintenance. By the early 2010s, the structure was in serious need of restoration. A new ownership group acquired the property in 2017 and undertook the restoration of the histo...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/glen-ferris-inn-wp/dny1-glen-ferris-inn-reopened-in-2018.mp3 0:06 5 full Glen Ferris Inn: Flying Over the Falls https://qualla.com/glen-ferris-inn/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. From the air, Glen Ferris is a small riverfront community on the south bank of the Kanawha River, with the broad cascade of Kanawha Falls immediately downstream. The inn's brick block stands out from the surrounding wooden houses, with its long wing extending to the southeast alo...

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