HISTORIC GLEN FERRIS INN
Inn — Glen Ferris, West Virginia
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/historic-glen-ferris-inn-glen-ferris-west-virginia/

State tourism recounts the bearded Colonel apparition.

Historic Glen Ferris Inn is an inn in Glen Ferris, West Virginia. State tourism recounts the bearded Colonel apparition. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the colonel. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.

The Glen Ferris Inn is the inn at the falls — the Federal brick building Aaron Stockton bought in 1817 at the head of navigation on the Great Kanawha, where the river drops over the falls and the James River & Kanawha Turnpike came down to the water. Stockton — grandson of a Declaration signer — ran it as a tavern from 1839, a stagecoach stop that served the river and the road until the railroad killed the turnpike in 1874.
The inn was a quartermaster depot in 1861, the headquarters of Stockton's coal and timber enterprises, and later a Union Carbide property. Bonaventura Bosia gave it the pedimented gable and Ionic porticoes in 1910. The ghost tradition is the inn's own — stagecoaches, soldiers, and the spirits that the river and two centuries of travelers are said to have left in the rooms over the falls.
The file keeps Glen Ferris: the falls, the turnpike inn, the quartermaster depot, and the building that has been feeding travelers at the Kanawha since before West Virginia was a state.
The Glen Ferris Inn is the archive's falls file — the stagecoach stop, the Civil War depot, and the ghost that came with the building.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Glen Ferris Inn is the archive's falls file — the 1815 building, the Stockton enterprises, and the inn that predates the state.
An inn at the head of navigation keeps its falls — the file's suggestion being that Glen Ferris's hold is the threshold: the place where the road met the river, and the guests who arrived by stagecoach and stayed.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: State tourism recounts the bearded Colonel apparition. The Colonel is the name the reports keep returning to. The Glen Ferris hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. 'West Virginia launches Statewide Paranormal Trail' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: West Virginia launches Statewide Paranormal Trail (https://wvtourism.com/release/west-virginia-launches-statewide-paranormal-trail/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· West Virginia launches Statewide Paranormal Trail — West Virginia Department of Tourism
  https://wvtourism.com/release/west-virginia-launches-statewide-paranormal-trail/

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