The main economic activity in the area is coal mining along with sheep and cattle ranching.

With coal discovered 8 km away from Dundee, an efficient way was needed to transport coal to factories other than by ox wagon.

The railway from Durban to Johannesburg reached this point on 4 September 1889.

The village was renamed Glencoe, after a mountain valley in Lochaber, Scotland, it became a town in 1934.

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