​About Glencoe:

• In1855, Martin McLeod led a group of settlers from Minneapolis to the banks of Buffalo Creek. 

• McLeod chose the location for Glencoe, at the edge of the Big Wood and named it for his home of Glen Coe Scotland.

• A post office opened in Glencoe in 1856. 

• Glencoe was incorporated as a city in 1909. 

• There are 28 places in the world named Glencoe.  21 of them in the US

• Green Giant plant was built in 1949.  Glencoe turned down 3-M offer to build here and they chose Hutchinson.

• Green Giant purchased by Pillsbury then sold to Seneca.  No longer world's largest pea manufacturing facility

• In 2022, the median household income in Glencoe, Illinois (home of Tom Cruise in Risky Business) was $228,750

• Census of 2000, found Glencoe, MN had 5,453 people, 2,103 households, and 1,446 families living in the city.