Barton Creek (Belize)

Barton Creek is the name of a small river and the area it flows through in Cayo District, Belize.

Upper Barton Creek is a unique settlement of reformers from different Anabaptist backgrounds, who wanted to create a Mennonite community free of modernistic trends and in nonconformity to the world to live a simple Christian life.

[1] Following their Ordnung the Mennonites of Upper Barton Creek do not own any equipment with motors, including cars, nor do they use electricity.

The Mennonites of Upper Barton Creek are counted to the Noah Hoover group, which originally is from central Pennsylvania.

[3] Lower Barton Creek is a small village, that was founded in 1970 by Mennonites from Shipyard in Belize.