Glasgow is a town in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the James and Maury Rivers.

As a result of flooding concerns, the Balcony Falls Dam (just east of the confluence of the James and Maury rivers) was removed in 1973.

[6] German explorer John Peter Salling and his brother Adam were the first Europeans to settle in what is known today as Glasgow around 1741.

In 1854 Frank Padgett, a Black slave, drowned while attempting to rescue passengers stranded on a canal boat by the swollen James River.

A granite obelisk monument commemorating his death stands in Glasgow's Centennial Park.

At that time only two houses, Union Ridge and the Salling home, stood in Glasgow, which then had a population of only 20 people.

The Virginia Electrical Power Company (VEPCO, now Dominion Energy) built a hydroelectric plant at Balcony Falls in 1915.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.5 square miles (4.0 km2), all of it land.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.