Glen Boughton was established as an estate in 1887 and is today used for farming sugarcane.
The western part of the locality the land is flat (almost at sea level) and is used for farming, predominantly sugarcane. By 1887, Messrs Clayton and John Hill had established a farm called Glen Boughton Estate raising cattle on cultivated grasses and were obtaining dairy cows as Cairns was experiencing increased demand for milk and butter. 
