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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 ...
Shipyard was founded in 1958 by Old Colony Mennonites from Chihuahua and Durango states in Mexico. [1] It consists of more than 20 camps (German: "dörfer"), which have German names like "Blumenort" or "Hochfeld", but outside the Mennonite community they are referred to only by numbers, e. g. "Camp 5" instead of "Reinfeld".
Indian Creek is a Mennonite settlement that is also an administrative village in Orange Walk District in Belize.
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 ...
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 ...
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
Because the Mennonite colony is close to Progresso, it is sometimes called "Progresso". According to the 2000 census, the population of Little Belize was 2,059 people. In 2010 the population had grown to 2,650 people in 427 households. [2] Of these, 98.8% were Mennonite, 0.8% Mestizo, 0.2% Mixed, 0.1% Yucatec Maya and 0.1% Ketchi Maya.
Pine Hill is a Mennonite village in Toledo District, Belize, some 15 km north of the district capital Punta Gorda. Pine Hill is a daughter colony of the Upper Barton Creek settlement. It was founded around 1997. It is home to very conservative Mennonites, who belong to the Noah Hoover branch of Old Order Mennonites.