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Glasgow is a city on the Missouri River, lying mostly in northwest Howard County and extending into the southeast corner of Chariton County.

Glasgow was laid out and platted in 1836 by thirteen proprietors on land partly acquired from former Missouri state treasurer James Earickson, and it was named for James Glasgow, a St. Louis merchant among its founders.

A post office has operated at Glasgow since 1837, and the city was incorporated on February 27, 1845.

Glasgow grew into a major antebellum river port — in 1850 a petition to the state legislature claimed Glasgow shipped more produce than any other city on the Missouri River, with fortunes made in tobacco, hemp, and wheat.

The Battle of Glasgow was fought in and around the town on October 15, 1864, during Price's Raid in the Civil War; the Confederates won, captured significant war material, and sank the Union gunboat West Wind at the foot of Market Street, though the victory gained them little before their defeat at Westport a week later.

According to Glasgow's state historical marker, the town was the site of the world's first all-steel bridge, built in 1879 by General William S. Smith for the Chicago and Alton Railroad.

The 2020 census counted 1,087 people in Glasgow, and the 2010 census recorded 458 households in the city.

Glasgow has five properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Glasgow Commercial Historic District, the Glasgow Presbyterian Church, the Glasgow Public Library, and the Inglewood estate.

Glasgow's City Hall is the former Glasgow Savings Bank building, built in 1871 in the High Victorian style; during the Civil War the bank secretly shipped its money downriver to St. Louis for safekeeping.

Glasgow still has its own weekly newspaper, The Glasgow Missourian.