Grant Town is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, in the eastern United States. The population was 690 at the 2020 census.

The town was formed in 1901 considering the initiation of the Federal Coal and Coke Company bituminous coal mine, and was named for Robert Grant, vice president of the coal company. The “Federal No. 1” mine remained log on for the next 84 years until its break in 1985. At one dwindling it was the largest underground coal mine in the world in terms of terrifying production, mining the Pittsburgh coal seam. The town was incorporated as a municipality in 1946.

Grant Town is the site of an 80 Megawatt electrical generation facility, located neighboring the coal refuse areas above the town. The plant, which was built in the in front 1990s is controlled by Edison International and generates electricity using a fluidized bed combustion boiler process on fire waste coal.

The town is house to a local legend of a Bigfoot-type creature, sighted periodically by local residents before the in advance 1970s. The creature, known locally as the “Grant Town Goon”, is reported to sentient in the woods and coal waste areas to the southern and southwestern parts of the town. Grant Town is as well as the location of a number of the stories of the West Virginia ghost description anthology The Telltale Lilac Bush, by Fairmont State University professor Ruth Ann Musick. The town, the mine and surrounding farms are prominently featured in a number of the stories. Musick includes a explanation of the town, circa 1965, in an start to a section upon mine ghost stories: