Gladstone city i Delta county i Michigan i USA

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The town was originally named Minnewasca by the Soo Line Railroad, the Ojibwa name meaning ”white water.” When the name was filed with the county and Secretary of State in Lansing, Senator W. D. Washburn, who had an interest in building the railroad, persuaded officials to change the name to Gladstone in honor of British premier, William Evert Gladstone.

Earliest development was on Saunders Point, so named for Capt. Nate Saunders who headquartered there when fishing at various points along the bay, was the location for the initial build-up of Gladstone. Today, Saunder's Point still exists as a small peninsula east of Gladstone's city park system, located in Little Bay De Noc.

Expanding beyond its iron ore roots into a shipping point for lumber, coal, and copper during the American civil war, throughout the 1860s and 1870s, Gladstone grew into a busy port.

Gladstone was incorporated as a village in 1887 and as a city in 1889.

Gladstone is named after the English statesman William Ewart Gladstone.