[2] Horticulturalist A.J Kinsley of Benton Harbor, Michigan who was also active in Chicago seems to have spent time in Glenwood.

The area developed a sizable African American community and included the Mount Olive AME Church established in 1883.

The once abandoned cemetery, located at 2155 Guava Street, includes gravesites of World War I veterans[4] and was cleaned up by volunteers in 2015.

The Bond Lumber Company in Glenwood was operating in 1891 and advertised yellow pines and cypress products in a 1902 edition of Florida Magazine.

Glenwood's entry in Lippincott's New Gazetteer published in 1916 describes it as a post-village of Volusia with a population of about 200 and notes its banking is carried out in DeLand, Florida.