Springfield is a Mennonite village in Cayo District, Belize, some 15 km south of the capital Belmopan.
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.
Norris Hall, a photojournalist who in 2011 made a photo documentary about the people of Springfield, erroneously refers to them as "Amish".
[2] In Springfield there is a fruit tree nursery and a horse powered saw mill.
[3][4] The village population of 270 residents is composed of 40 families of Plautdietsch and Pennsylvania German speaking Mennonites.