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Springfield was founded around 1996 as a daughter colony of the Upper Barton Creek settlement of very conservative Mennonites, who mainly live in the United States. These Mennonites, that belong to the Noah Hoover branch of Old Order Mennonites, are in many outward aspects similar to Old Order Amish, but clearly distinct from them. Norris Hall ...
Blue Creek, also Blue Creek Colony, is a Mennonite settlement that is also an administrative village in Orange Walk District in Belize. It borders Blue Creek river, which forms the border to Mexico. Its inhabitants are Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonites. In 1958 Blue Creek was founded by Old Colony Mennonites from Mexico.
Shipyard, also called Shipyard Colony, is a Mennonite settlement that is also an administrative village in the Orange Walk District of Belize.. Shipyard was founded in 1958 by Old Colony Mennonites from Chihuahua and Durango states in Mexico. [1]
Mennonites in Belize; Mennonite children selling peanuts to tourists near Lamanai in Belize. Total population; 15,249 ethnic Mennonites 15,440 (by religion) [1] [2] (2022) Regions with significant populations; Orange Walk District, Cayo District, Corozal District: Religions; Mennonitism, a part of Anabaptism: Scriptures
Spanish Lookout is a settlement in the Cayo District of Belize in Central America. According to the 2010 census, Spanish Lookout had a population of 2,253 people in 482 households (2005 census has population is 2,300 and 2000 census had population is 1,786). [1] Spanish Lookout is a community of Mennonites.
At the time of the 2010 census, Indian Creek had a population of 903 people in 150 households. [1] Of these, 99.7% were Mennonite , 0.1% Ketchi Maya , 0.1% Mestizo and 0.1% Yucatec Maya . [ 2 ]
It is home of the most conservative German speaking "Russian" Mennonites in Belize. It is similar to conservative Mennonite settlements in Bolivia. [4] It had a population of about 150 in 1980, about 200 in 1985 and only about 100 in 1989, after many inhabitants left for Mennonite colonies in Paraguay, Bolivia and elsewhere. Its population ...
Richmond Hill was a Mennonite settlement of Old Colony Mennonites in Orange Walk District in Belize, near Orange Walk Town. It was founded in 1960 by Mennonites from the Peace River area in Alberta, Canada, two years after the Belizean Mennonite settlements Blue Creek, Shipyard and Spanish Lookout were founded. Economic hardships led to the ...