Upper Barton Creek, Belize

Belize

Upper Barton Creek, Belize shares 15 connections with 632 other places across 5 topics, concentrated in Mennonite religion and language. The community was founded in 1969 by two groups: Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites from Spanish Lookout and Pennsylvania German-speaking families from Old Order Mennonite and Amish backgrounds. Its strongest ties run to Belize broadly and to Springfield, Belize, with further overlaps reaching Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ontario through the Anabaptist diaspora networks these settlers carried with them.