Glade is/was located in the southeast portion of the Madeline Plains. Its most prominent landmark is the old Horne Ranch that was established in 1870 and one the first places settled on the “plains.” The name, purported]ly, is from an old Germanic word for open space and there are lot of wide-open spaces on the Madeline Plains. The Glade post office operated from 1908 to 1918. The Glade School operated from 1916 to 1925 at which time it was annexed to Ravendale.

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