Glen Ferris is a census-designated place (CDP) on the western bank of the Kanawha River in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It is situated nearly one mile south of the town of Gauley Bridge. The sole highway linking Glen Ferris to the Place is U.S. Route 60, known furthermore as the Midland Trail. As of the 2010 census, its population was 203; the community had 104 housing units, 87 of which were occupied. The village is on the order of a mile and a half in length. Glen Ferris is house to two churches, one Apostolic and one Methodist. A railway owned by Norfolk Southern runs parallel to US Route 60 through the village.

The first long-lasting building to be build up in Glen Ferris was the Glen Ferris Inn (originally a private residence) which was built in 1810. It served as a private home from 1810 until 1839 later it began operation as a hotel . In 1839, the house was purchased by Aaron Stockton who acquired a license from Fayette County to “open a common room”, at which point, the building began to advance as an inn. The inn time-honored several famous guests: Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, Henry Clay, and John James Audubon. During the Civil War, the inn, at alternative times, served as the host to officers from both sides including Confederate generals Henry A. Wise and John B. Floyd. Two Union generals stayed at the inn—Jacob D. Cox and William S. Rosecrans. At one dwindling during the war, Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley, who were encamped across the Kanawha River, spent times at the inn. After falling into disrepair, the inn was renovated and an accessory was built in the 1960s (date uncertain). A further accessory of a dining hall was completed in the 1980s (date uncertain). In 1996, the Inn was purchased from Elkem Metals by a local family. The new proprietors added a glass walled Dining Room that overlooks the Kanawha Falls. It continues to pretend as a hotel. The Glen Ferris Inn overlooks the Kanawha Falls. On the east bank of the river, across from the inn, lay the remnants of Camp Reynolds, a Union Army camp and gun embankment used in the Civil War.

After the Civil War, the area began to go to as coal production escalated in the give leave to enter of West Virginia and abundant water made the generation of capability inexpensive. In the ahead of time part of the 1900s, a dam was constructed across the river from Glen Ferris. Trains operated on both sides of the river, carrying passengers as well as coal. In 1917, Union Carbide purchased a small hydro electrice forest in Glen Ferris, the brick remains of which can yet be seen on the edge of the Kanawha River and which is monster presently renovated. While continuing to decree this small plant, in 1929-30, Carbide built a much larger ferro-alloys plant at Alloy, a few miles downriver from Glen Ferris, which, at that time, was the world’s largest ferro-alloys plant, employing some 2800 people, during its heyday from the time of its construction through the before 1960s. In order to generate faculty for the larger tree-plant by diverting water from the New River, the company had a 3-mile long tunnel built through the mountain at Hawks Nest. The stone through which the tunnel was built consisted of 98% pure silica and caused acute silica poisoning accompanied by hundreds of unprotected workers, many of whom died. Many who died were buried near by in mass graves on the property which is now the Hawks Nest Country Club. At the time, the simple town of Gauley Bridge became known as “the town of the walking dead”. The mishap became the focus of Congressional hearings in Washington, D.C., in the mid-thirties, and acute silicosis was identified as an occupational weakness for the first time. The town of Glen Ferris followed the pattern already set by mine companies in the area. Union Carbide built a majority of the homes in Glen Ferris, as with ease as in further towns in the Upper Kanawha Valley and leased them to workers and their families. During its heyday, Union Carbide afterward provided a recreation hall in the upper fade away of the village. A herald office/general store, an elementary school, a tennis court, a bowling alley, and a playground also served the residents. After the 1950s, as forest production declined, Union Carbide began to sell the houses to their occupants. In the 1970s, several homes were build up on the mountainside above Glen Ferris in the north fade away of town; these would be Glen Ferris’ largest homes and lead to its continued progress as a place where people chose to live, primarily for its scenic views and in contradiction of surrounding towns along Route 60. In recent years, several even larger homes have been built upon the northern edge of Glen Ferris, close to Gauley Bridge. The elementary theoretical was closed in 1961; the apostolic church stands there now. Nearby whitewater rafting on the New River Gorge has brought many tourists to the town.