Upper Barton Creek use to be 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] In the founding of Upper Barton Creek three men and their families were very important, two of them came from Pilgrimage Valley and one from Spanish Lookout.

Following their Ordnung the Mennonites of Upper Barton Creek at one time did not own any equipment with motors, including cars, nor do they use electricity.

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

[3] In 2010 it had a population of 380, with an average household size of 7, reflecting the family-oriented conservative Mennonite culture.