[5][6] The community is home to the Hamilton Farm Golf Club, the Stronghold Soccer Club, the United States Equestrian Team and the Gill St. Bernard's School, a private, nonsectarian, coeducational day school, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.

[2] Gladstone is home to the United States Equestrian Team[7] and the Stronghold Soccer Club, which plays its matches at Mount St. John's on the grounds of Montgomery Academy.

[13] The Hamilton Farm Golf Club is located in Gladstone and has been the site of the Sybase Match Play Championship since its inception in 2010.

The Gladstone train station building was re-labeled "Boston," and its surroundings were supplied with peat-moss dirt, period vehicles and extras in Victorian dress, for a 1962 movie shoot.

In the Oscar-winning film The Miracle Worker, Anne Bancroft in the role of Annie Sullivan boards a long-distance steam train there to take the job as Helen Keller's teacher.