Glenwood is a forestry-based community located on the West Bank of the Gander River in central Newfoundland. G.L.Phillips established a sawmill called Glenwood Lumber Company in the 1890s. In 1901 Lewis H. Miller purchase the sawmill which employed two hundred men. Destroyed by fire in the same year, Miller rebuilt the sawmill but sold it in 1903 to Henry Crowe of Reid Newfoundland Limited. Eventually the facility became the property of the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company.

In 1919, Glenwood was again devastated by fire. Combined with a sluggish lumber industry, the community experienced a decline in population until 1940. Population increased quickly beginning in the 1940s when Bowater Newfoundland established pulpwood camps in the area. The population of Glenwood increased until the 1960s when forest fires destroyed extensive areas of commercial timber. However, many residents of the central Newfoundland town continue to depend on the forestry for employment.