Glen Este is an unincorporated area of Union Township, in Clermont County, Ohio, United States.
The main road in town ran through the area of Donnell's Trace now old State Route 74, passing through a glen, hence the name.
The Glen Este post office was established in July 1878[1] with an insignificant sign on the door that read: "The Eastgate to Cincinnati".
Some of the businesses that were popular from the 1940s through the 1970s were, Micky McGuire's General Store, Charlie McGuire's gas station and garage, Maurice's Grocery Store, Flick's Pony Keg, Pearl's Beauty Shop, which was owned by Willard and Pearl Pitman, and Tom Clepper Construction, who built most of the ranch-style slab homes in the area.
One of the longest running ownerships of the tavern were Claude and Hazel Jackson who ran it as The Copper Stallion bar and restaurant until it burnt down to the ground from an air conditioning unit in 1955.
All the homes in the original subdivision of Clepper Lane and Fayard Drive have been re zoned for business which will allow the already sprawling shopping area to spread even farther.
The Wuebolds, another large farm family in the area, sold most of their property to make way for the construction of the high school in 1963.
Donnell's Trace was a road already pathed out by a natural glen often used by the native-American Indians, and travelers including the Underground Railroad and Morgan's Raiders.
John Donnells laid out the road in 1797 which started in Mercersburg (now Newtown) to Lytlestown (now Williamsburg) and later continued to Ohio's first capital, Chillicothe.