[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":50},["ShallowReactive",2],{"road-665":3,"map-data-road-665":37,"$fGv1WKGdzIYc09ICSLnB460MEPu4SPxip-IQNTaWS3nw":40,"$fP2NF41cKLpWVA6X5oQdTHIT9gR-lK5IOeHjUUOJBqA8":41,"$fvbZGhf6ZSAZSuw6I4YZea5OEBlBJ34kKbTRPLtv27Ag":42,"$fAfCr8_Au82dfZhdYQAyWBKD3msHaDDxfRhZ58u0eeAQ":43,"$f3vShG12mKZYApS_NSkTe6BrPlUCfrdu3q6ik6fbKK58":44},{"id":4,"name":5,"startDate":6,"startDateSource":7,"districtId":8,"settlementId":9,"historyMd":10,"ohmChronologyId":11,"shapeId":12,"lat":13,"lng":14,"isArterial":15,"isFeeder":15,"isDistributor":15,"district":16,"settlement":19,"shape":34,"sourceData":35,"shapeSource":36},665,"159 Street West","2023-05","Copernicus",2,295,"# History\nThis road was constructed in May 2023 and was transferred to the Spanish Lookout Community on June 10, 2024.",2953542,777,17.23556,-89.01001,false,{"id":8,"name":17,"ref":18},"Cayo","CY",{"id":9,"name":20,"districtId":8,"lat":21,"lng":22,"classification":23,"status":24,"buildingQty":25,"buildingSizeM":26,"startDate":27,"ohmChronologyId":28,"shapeId":29,"wikidata":30,"historyMd":31,"area":32,"articleRating":33},"Spanish Lookout",17.25674,-89.00255,"village","active",2300,702445,"1958-03-12",2851935,142,"Q1936055","**Spanish Lookout** was established as a Mennonite farming settlement on the north (left) bank of the [[waterway:20]] in the Cayo District, about two miles north of the old Belize–Cayo road that became the [[road:7]].\u003Cref>https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/05/43/44/00001/AA00054344_00001.pdf\u003C/ref> It was founded in 1958 by Kleine Gemeinde Mennonites from the Quellen Colony in Chihuahua, Mexico, under an agreement with the government of British Honduras.\u003Cref>https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Spanish_Lookout_Colony_(Cayo_District,_Belize)\u003C/ref> From 409 settlers counted in April 1960 it grew to 3,108 residents at the 2022 census, and its farms and businesses became leading suppliers of poultry, eggs and dairy products to the rest of the country.\u003Cref>https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/05/43/44/00001/AA00054344_00001.pdf\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://sib.org.bz/wp-content/uploads/Census2022_PopulationCTV.xlsx\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/180139\u003C/ref>\n\n# History\n## Logging Camp\nAccording to Hector Silva, Spanish Lookout took its name from an 18th-century confrontation between Spanish and British forces on the Belize River. In 1718 the Spaniards made a determined effort to conquer the British settlements of Honduras and got as far as Spanish Lookout, where the Spanish held one bank of the river and the British the other. The Spanish built a lookout there, and the place came to be called Spanish Lookout. In 1754 another attempt was made, but they only got as far as [[waterway:160]] where they were defeated mostly by slaves.\n\nAlfred Usher's 1888 map of British Honduras already marked the name Spanish Lookout ([[settlement:564]]) on the Belize River, near Tiger Run and Iguana Creek.\u003Cref>Alfred Usher, Map of British Honduras, 1888\u003C/ref> As late as March 1963 a title notice in the British Honduras Gazette, describing the boundaries of the neighbouring Duck Run mahogany work ([[settlement:550]]), still called the tract \"Spanish Lookout Work\".\u003Cref>British Honduras Gazette, March 16, 1963, p. 125\u003C/ref>---1888---\n\n## Mennonite Settlement\nEarly in 1957 a delegation from the Reinländer and Kleine Gemeinde churches of Chihuahua negotiated with the colonial government for land and privileges.\u003Cref>https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/05/43/44/00001/AA00054344_00001.pdf\u003C/ref> On December 16, 1957 an agreement was made between the government of British Honduras and a delegation of the Quellen Colony in Chihuahua and Durango in Mexico.\u003Cref>https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=amishstudies\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Colonial Report: British Honduras 1958 (HMSO), p. 9\u003C/ref> It granted the Mennonites their own churches and schools, taught in their own language; the right to affirm with a simple 'yes' or 'no' instead of swearing oaths; their own trust system for estates, the *Waisenamt*; and exemption from social security. In return they undertook to invest about 500,000 British Honduras dollars and to produce food for local consumption and export.\u003Cref>https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=amishstudies\u003C/ref>---1957---\n\nFor the government, and for George Price as Member for Natural Resources, the settlers promised to lessen the colony's dependence on imported food.\u003Cref>https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=amishstudies\u003C/ref> The Mennonites, for their part, had been refused more land in Chihuahua and objected to the Mexican government's decision that they must join its social security system.\u003Cref>https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/05/43/44/00001/AA00054344_00001.pdf\u003C/ref>---1957---\n\nAccording to the geographer Allen Bushong, the first contingent of Mennonites reached British Honduras on March 12, 1958, and three settlements were laid out: [[settlement:25]] and [[settlement:291]] in the Orange Walk District, and Spanish Lookout on the Belize River, 122 miles above its mouth.\u003Cref>https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/05/43/44/00001/AA00054344_00001.pdf\u003C/ref> The colonial government's report for 1958 recorded that the first batches arrived in April and May, and that over a thousand Reinländer and Kleine Gemeinde Mennonites migrated during the year.\u003Cref>Colonial Report: British Honduras 1958 (HMSO), p. 51\u003C/ref> The Spanish Lookout group, about 75 families from the Quellen Colony (Los Jagüeyes),\u003Cref>https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Spanish_Lookout_Colony_(Cayo_District,_Belize)\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://www.plettfoundation.org/preservings/archive/48/a-visit-to-the-colonies-in-belize/\u003C/ref> crossed the river at the place later called Mennonite Beach.\u003Cref>https://anabaptistworld.org/mennonites-mark-60-years-in-belize/\u003C/ref> Only about 30 acres were clear; the rest was high bush crossed by a few rutted logging trails, and a tamarind tree by the landing served for a while as the church.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/25163\u003C/ref>---1958---\n\nThe settlers opened their first roads with a single small Caterpillar tractor, and many families, finding the conditions too hard, returned to Mexico.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/25163\u003C/ref> By August 1959 Spanish Lookout had cleared 760 acres, more than any other Mennonite settlement: 470 acres of pasture, 135 of tree crops and 150 of vegetables and staple crops. A special census in April 1960 counted 409 people living in three village groups on 18,000 acres, and by the time Bushong's study appeared in January 1961 the colony had ten miles of internal road, a store, a feed mill, a lumber mill, a church and a seven-grade school.\u003Cref>https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/05/43/44/00001/AA00054344_00001.pdf\u003C/ref>---1959---\n\nPoultry quickly became a mainstay, with eighty cases of eggs a week sent to Belize and Chetumal,\u003Cref>https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/05/43/44/00001/AA00054344_00001.pdf\u003C/ref> and the government reported for 1958 that competition from the Spanish Lookout and Blue Creek colonies had helped bring down the price of eggs and dressed poultry.\u003Cref>Colonial Report: British Honduras 1958 (HMSO), p. 50\u003C/ref> Its reports for 1959–61 and 1962–63 described the Mennonite communities planting citrus and raising cattle and, together with other farmers, becoming the main suppliers of poultry and eggs.\u003Cref>British Honduras: Report for the Years 1959, 1960 and 1961 (HMSO, 1963), p. 44\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>British Honduras: Report for the Years 1962 and 1963 (HMSO, 1965), p. 41\u003C/ref>---1960---\n\nRoyal Air Force photographs taken in December 1961 and March 1962, compiled into the Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of 1965, showed the settlement as houses scattered along tracks amid cleared fields north of the river, opposite Baking Pot and [[settlement:49]].\u003Cref>Directorate of Overseas Surveys, British Honduras 1:50,000, Series E755, Sheet 23 (1965)\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Directorate of Overseas Surveys, British Honduras 1:50,000, Series E755, Sheet 18 (1965)\u003C/ref> Ministers of the Kleine Gemeinde church at Spanish Lookout appeared in the list of marriage officers published in the Government Gazette of February 2, 1963.\u003Cref>British Honduras Gazette, February 2, 1963, Notice No. 128, pp. 66–67\u003C/ref>---1962---\n\nIn 1966 a dispute over motorised farm machinery led thirty conservative members of the Kleine Gemeinde to leave for Paraguay. Another conservative group first tried to form a community within Spanish Lookout; after about two years one of its members, Heinrich Friesen, joined two families from Pilgrimage Valley in buying an 850-acre tract that became [[settlement:319]] in 1969.\u003Cref>https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=amishstudies\u003C/ref> In 1967 a group of farmers and businessmen from the community founded Western Dairies as a small fresh-milk plant in two wooden buildings.\u003Cref>https://westerndairies.bz/about-western-dairies/\u003C/ref>---1966---\n\n## Growth and Development\nA community property map printed on July 5, 1974 showed farms laid out as long, narrow lots along all-weather and dirt roads, with schools, churches, feed mills, a sawmill and planer, a slaughtering plant, a dairy, a hatchery, a store, and Texaco and Esso fuel stations.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Community property map (south), printed July 5, 1974\u003C/ref> A 1980 road map named the villages of Edental, Rosenhof, Schöntal and Gnadenfeld, showed about ten schools and marked the road to [[settlement:276]] and the river ferry.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Community road map, 1980\u003C/ref> Electricity was introduced in the early 1980s and running water in the early 1990s.\u003Cref>https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/usys/ites/ecosystem-management-dam/documents/EducationDOC/EM_DOC/Mennonites%20traditional%20farmers%20or%20modern%20businessmen%202005.pdf\u003C/ref>---1974---\n\nThe colony continued to buy, divide and sell land (see Boundaries). On July 12, 1986 it auctioned 47 acres of colony land west of the ferry in four lots, and on October 22, 1986 it offered about 2,000 acres at Duck Run in lots of 50 and 36.7 acres, payable in quarters over three years at 9% interest.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Community, Land Ausruf notice for the auction of July 12, 1986\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Community, Land Ausruf notice for the auction of October 22, 1986\u003C/ref> In the 1980s refugees from Guatemala and El Salvador came to the area for work, and in 1987 the colony's four schools enrolled 75 refugee children; the settlement then had 1,108 residents.\u003Cref>https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Spanish_Lookout_Colony_(Cayo_District,_Belize)\u003C/ref>---1986---\n\nThe pioneers gathered in mid-March 1998 to celebrate the settlement's 40th anniversary.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/25163\u003C/ref> On June 17, 2002 officials opened a two-lane steel bridge over the Belize River at Iguana Creek ([[bridge:110]]), replacing a single-lane wooden bridge ([[bridge:175]]) that high water often made impassable; an earlier attempt at a new bridge there ([[bridge:181]]) had been washed away by a flood in June 1993.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/17011\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/12372\u003C/ref>---2002---\n\nBelize Natural Energy began drilling at Spanish Lookout in June 2005 and struck oil at its Mike Usher No. 1 well that year. On March 6, 2006 the company informed the Ministry of Natural Resources that the discovery was of commercial quantity, the first commercial oil find in the country.\u003Cref>https://www.bne.bz/message-from-the-ceo-2018/milestones/\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://ambergristoday.com/news/2010/10/05/belize-rich-in-oil/\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/9556\u003C/ref>---2006---\n\nThe 50th anniversary celebrations opened on February 29, 2008 and continued on March 1; by then the community counted over 1,600 residents, and its land had grown from about 15,000 to 52,000 acres.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/5325\u003C/ref> Country Side Park was designed and constructed for the anniversary, the planning starting from an initial meeting in June 2006.---2008---\n\nThe national census recorded 2,253 people in 482 households in 2010 and 3,108 people in about 770 households in 2022.\u003Cref>https://sib.org.bz/wp-content/uploads/2010_Census_Report.pdf\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://sib.org.bz/wp-content/uploads/Census2022_PopulationCTV.xlsx\u003C/ref> In the 2020s new residential subdivisions were surveyed on community land, among them [[settlement:381]], laid out in phases on what its plan called the \"GWP Duck Run Lease area\", and [[settlement:631]].\u003Cref>Proposed Subdivision of GWP Duck Run Lease area, Phase 2, sketch ID 20210427-1\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>APP Subdivision Survey (Trimble parcel survey)\u003C/ref>---2022---\n\n## Boundaries\nSpanish Lookout grew from a single estate of 84.87 km² in 1958 to about 425 km² by 2024, five times its original size. Most of that growth came from the community buying neighbouring farms and ranches, while a few small parcels were sold to the neighbouring village of [[settlement:86]] when it needed room to grow.\n\nThe first purchase, made in 1958, was the Spanish Lookout Estate, which covered 84.87 km².---1958---\n\nIn 1968 the community bought Barton Ramie, on its southeast side along the [[waterway:20]], for ranching and crop farming. The purchase added 1.28 km² and brought the total to 86.15 km².---1968---\n\nIn 1978 the Duck Run tract was bought. Part of it went to Spanish-speaking families, who founded the villages of [[settlement:86]], [[settlement:87]] and [[settlement:88]]. Spanish Lookout's share added 20.52 km², bringing the total to 106.67 km².---1978---\n\nIn 1986 a few more sections of Duck Run were added to Spanish Lookout, an increase of 9.98 km² that brought the total to 116.65 km².---1986---\n\nIn September 1989 the community bought [[settlement:367]] for ranching and crop farming. At 103.93 km² it nearly doubled the size of Spanish Lookout, to 220.58 km².---1989---\n\nIn 1995 [[settlement:371]] was bought for crop farming, adding 8.03 km² and bringing the total to 228.61 km².---1995---\n\nIn the 2000s a parcel south of the Bullet Tree Falls–Spanish Lookout Road was subdivided and sold to [[settlement:86]], reducing the total by 0.12 km² to 228.49 km².---2000---\n\nIn July 2007 the community bought the Castile estate for crop farming, adding 10.57 km² and bringing the total to 244.29 km².---2007---\n\nIn the 2010s a second parcel was subdivided and sold to residents of [[settlement:86]], reducing the total by 0.09 km² to 244.20 km².---2010---\n\nIn 2012 the community bought [[settlement:369]] and [[settlement:368]] for ranching and crop farming. Together they added 123.35 km², the largest expansion in its history, and brought the total to 367.55 km².---2012---\n\nThe community made three purchases in 2022. In May it bought the [[settlement:374]] Farm for farming and the [[settlement:375]] Farm for farming and possible future settlement, together adding 46.47 km² and bringing the total to 414.02 km². In September it bought [[settlement:372]] for farming, adding 4.18 km² for a total of 418.20 km². In October it bought [[settlement:373]], adding 5.03 km² for a total of 423.23 km², and on November 26, 2022 that land was auctioned off to the community's farmers.---2022---\n\nIn July 2024 a parcel was sold to [[settlement:86]], which needed more land for the village, reducing the total by 0.24 km² to 422.99 km². In October 2024 the community bought Boiton Land for ranching, adding 2.31 km² and bringing the total to 425.30 km².---2024---\n\nIn 2026 more land was offered to the community. At the meeting of March 28, 2026 members heard of 750 acres for sale at Santa Martha and a 900-acre piece of black soil at [[settlement:33]].\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-03-28\u003C/ref> On April 25 there was support for buying the Buena Vista land and the deal was in progress, and in June it was reported that the land north of Buena Vista was being bought, to be auctioned to members a few months later.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-04-25\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-06-25\u003C/ref> At the meeting of May 30, 2026 the land committee offered the more fertile half (5,500 acres) of the Beaver Dam land, which the community had decided not to buy a year earlier, noting that a purchase could allow a bridge to connect it to [[settlement:370]], but by June there had not been enough interest to go ahead.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-05-30\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-06-25\u003C/ref> On September 26, 2026 a questionnaire on the Selena property was handed out, and members answered that the community should build and maintain the roads there.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-09-26\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n## Community Outreach\nSpanish Lookout often lent aid to the Government of Belize, neighbouring communities and disaster victims. The following are some of those contributions.\n\n- After Hurricane Hattie struck the country on October 31, 1961, Spanish Lookout, then only three years old, sent help even though the storm had blown down its own church building. According to Hector Silva, men from the community built 150 houses on the south side of Belize City and helped build the temporary barracks at [[settlement:117]] for families left homeless by the storm.\u003Cref>https://www.anabaptistwiki.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Kleine_Gemeinde_zu_Spanish_Lookout%2C_Belize\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Hector Silva\u003C/ref>\n- In 1996 La Loma Luz Hospital in [[settlement:231]] asked for assistance to pave their deteriorated driveway. Spanish Lookout provided half of the equipment and collected private donations for the project.\u003Cref>1996-01-20 Spanish Lookout Monthly Meeting Minutes\u003C/ref>\n- In November 1998, after Hurricane Mitch, Spanish Lookout donated 88,000 pounds (39,600 kg) of rice and 44,000 pounds (19,800 kg) of corn to Mennonite Central Committee for shipment to Honduras. MCC also bought 44,000 pounds of red beans from Spanish Lookout, and the shipment arrived in San Pedro Sula, Honduras on November 21, 1998.\u003Cref>https://reliefweb.int/report/belize/mcc-efforts-widen-need-central-america-becomes-evident\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://reliefweb.int/report/nicaragua/material-financial-aid-shared-so-far-victims-mitch\u003C/ref>\n- In late January 2000 a fire destroyed the thatched homes of about 60 people in [[settlement:165]]. Spanish Lookout donated building supplies, and the Spanish Lookout Outreach Program joined Belizean businesses in the rebuilding effort. On February 10, 2000 nine families received the keys to their new wooden, zinc-roofed homes.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/21595\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/21584\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/21523\u003C/ref>\n- In October 2000, after Hurricane Keith, the Spanish Lookout outreach committee sent weekly teams of about ten volunteers to [[settlement:47]], even though Spanish Lookout's own crops had suffered heavy losses from the floods. The volunteers cleaned yards, repaired buildings, and built temporary housing with nineteen rooms for nineteen homeless families.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/20186\u003C/ref>\n- In October and November 2001, after Hurricane Iris, Spanish Lookout Mennonites built houses for families in Toledo District villages under the oversight of James Yoder's group. By November 19, 2001 the project had completed 85 houses in San Marcos, Blue Creek and other places, and 47 more were under construction in Medina Bank and Crique Jute.\u003Cref>https://mail.ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/posts/12745.html\u003C/ref>\n- On August 22, 2007, the day after Hurricane Dean, about 35 volunteers from Spanish Lookout went to [[settlement:38]] and the surrounding area with machetes and a tractor to clear fallen trees from houses, cars and yards. The Spanish Lookout Community also provided trucks to carry relief supplies to the Corozal District.\u003Cref>https://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/galleries/247160/collyk.html\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://reliefweb.int/report/belize/belize-nemo-updates-relief-efforts-disaster-areas-24-aug-2007\u003C/ref>\n- On October 2, 2009 the Mennonite Community of Spanish Lookout gave a 2008 Honda TRX420TE all-terrain vehicle to the Belize Tourism Board for the Tourism Security Task Force, a Belize Defence Force unit that patrolled the Mountain Pine Ridge. Chairman Allen Reimer said the gift came from a special fund set aside from the community's petroleum royalties for community projects.\u003Cref>https://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=15174\u003C/ref>\n- In 2011 the Spanish Lookout community gave a cafeteria building to St. Martin De Porres R.C. School in [[settlement:23]].\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/65785\u003C/ref>\n- In November 2016 the Spanish Lookout Community and the Spanish Lookout Business Bureau gave a new Foton pickup truck to the San Ignacio police formation for its Cayo Rural West patrols. The handover was scheduled for November 15, 2016 at the Spanish Lookout Community Center.\u003Cref>https://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2016/11/14/spanish-lookout-community-vehicle-san-ignacio-police/\u003C/ref>\n- On April 9, 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown of the Cayo District, the San Ignacio and Santa Elena Town Council distributed 1,000 live hens donated by Spanish Lookout to about 450 households in [[settlement:230]] and [[settlement:274]], along with dressed chickens also brought by Klaus Reimer. Breaking Belize News reported that the hens went to the mayors and councillors of San Ignacio, Santa Elena and [[settlement:15]].\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/201257\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2020/04/15/western-communities-benefit-from-generous-donations-from-mennonite-and-asian-communities/\u003C/ref>\n- On May 15, 2020 Western Dairies and Midwest Lumber Mill of Spanish Lookout, together with Green Care Products Ltd, donated cheddar and mozzarella cheese for the final Nurses' Week luncheon at the Western Regional Hospital. The donations included 60 pounds of cheese.\u003Cref>https://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2020/05/15/green-clean-western-dairies-and-midwest-lumber-mill-donated-to-western-regional-hospital-nurses-lasagna-luncheon/\u003C/ref>\n- In November 2020, during the flooding caused by Hurricanes Eta and Iota, Mennonites from Spanish Lookout and Blue Creek provided food and bedding for flood victims, donated mattresses, cleaned mud out of houses and yards, and supplied tractors, food and building materials.\u003Cref>https://belizemennonites.blogspot.com/2021/11/hattie-eta-and-iota.html\u003C/ref>\n- In September 2021, for the tenth anniversary of Harvest for Kids, the fundraising arm of the Belize Camping Experience children's ministry, the community of Spanish Lookout donated 41 acres of land for farming. According to the director of the Belize Camping Experience, every cost of the crop was covered, from the seed to the machinery and fertilizer, and the corn was harvested in Spanish Lookout on the weekend before September 14, 2021.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/223935\u003C/ref>\n- In 2026 Faith Nazarene Primary School, a Bible-based school in [[settlement:230]] with 391 students and the only school in Cayo offering special-needs education, asked Spanish Lookout for $28,000 toward a new classroom building. On March 28, 2026 the community approved $8,000 from its charitable funds and invited members to give personally. By April 25, 2026 a total of $18,000 had been donated, and on July 25, 2026 it was reported that the school had held the groundbreaking ceremony for the classroom and had thanked the Spanish Lookout Community for its support.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-03-28\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-04-25\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-07-25\u003C/ref>\n\n## Disasters\nSpanish Lookout was hit by a tornado on August 14, 2016 at about 11:00 in the morning. A couple of houses and a few chicken barns lost their roofs. This was not the first tornado ever recorded in Belize, but it was the first recorded that did damage to personal property.\u003Cref>https://amandala.com.bz/news/tornado-hits-spanish-lookout/\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=37339\u003C/ref>\n\n## Etymology\n**Spanish Lookout** was the name given to this area centuries ago because of a Spanish lookout that used to be up on a hill on the other side of the river.\u003Cref>Leonard M Reimer\u003C/ref> Over time a logging camp was established where Mennonite Beach now is, and it was called Spanish Lookout.\n\nWhen the Mennonites first moved here in 1958, they kept calling it **Spanish Lookout**. On January 16, 1963 it was voted on and decided to keep the name as **Mennonite Community Spanish Lookout**.\u003Cref>SLC Monthly Meeting Minutes 1963-01-16\u003C/ref>\n\n## Industries\n**Expos**\n\nA World Food Day Expo was held at Texaco in 2002. Former Prime Minister George Cadle Price was invited to speak.\u003Cref>SLC Meeting Minutes\u003C/ref>\n\n**Spanish Lookout Export Board**\n\n**Spanish Lookout Export Board**\n\nFrom 2024 the Spanish Lookout Export Board enabled live chicken exports to Guatemala, which greatly increased the number of chicken barns in the community.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting 2024-07-27\u003C/ref>---2024---\n\nWith the poultry industry growing, the question of how close together barns could be built came up repeatedly. At the meeting of March 28, 2026 Frank B Friesen of the Poultry Health Board noted that the zoning rules allowed barns 50 ft from the land border, while poultry-health guidelines required between 50 and 200 ft depending on the type of broiler, and a survey was handed out. The results were presented on April 25, 2026, and the earlier rules stayed in force while the Spanish Lookout part of the BPA studied the matter.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-03-28\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-04-25\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\nIn 2026 Norman Reimer and a member of the export board attended the signing in El Salvador of the Partial Scope Agreement, which opened trade in beef, beans, corn and other products. The LMA was to look into selling beef to El Salvador.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-08-29\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n**Lumber and Wooden Houses**\n\nWhen the Mennonites bought Spanish Lookout it still had a working sawmill at the river where Mennonite Beach is today. They used the sawmill to build houses from the logs they chopped down as they constructed roads.\n\nIn 1959 the price for cutting wood for private owners was 3.5 cents per foot.\n\nIn August 1960 they moved the sawmill a couple miles north, close to the junction of 35th St E/Center Ave in [[settlement:362]].\n\n**Poultry Products**\n\nIn November 1959 the Slaughtering Committee wanted to borrow money to build a roof for their slaughtering plant. They were thinking of placing it to the north-east of Menno D Loewen's lot.\n\nIn January 1960 a committee of 3 was elected to go to Chetumal to investigate the possibilities of an egg market. The committee was Peter D. Reimer, Johan R. Reimer, and Jacob Hein. In February, Johan R. Reimer was chosen to figure out the egg price.\n\n**Citrus**\n\nIn 1959 complaints were made about oranges being stolen.\n\n**Dairy Products**\n*\nThere is one dairy processing facility, Western Dairies. It is a farmers coop business that receives milk from their shareholders and turns it into milk, ice cream, cheese, yoghurt and other dairy products. They also produce flavoured drinks and have the largest restaurant in Belize.*\n\nIn March, 1960 there was an opportunity to buy Holstein heifers from the U.S.A.. Whoever was interested could report to Johan D. Friesen. Mr Martens also wanted to donate 10 heifers and 1 bull to the community. It was decided that whoever received one of those heifers would give the first calf to another farmer for free.\n\nThe price of the heifers was set at $100.00 up front and $100.00 in six months if the cow was still alive. Klaas C Penner bought the bull for $200.00\n\nIn 1968, farmers were told that it was better to use stainless steel buckets and cans for the milk, so they replaced all the existing buckets with stainless steel cans.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Meeting Minutes\u003C/ref>---1968---\n\n**Corn**\n\n**Crude Oil**\n\nOil was discovered in 2005, the oil reservoir covered an area of approximately 438,000 acres of land, spanning parts of [[settlement:15]], [[settlement:329]], Spanish Lookout, [[settlement:14]], and even [[settlement:37]]. \u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/9556\u003C/ref>---2005---\n\nOn September 1, 2005 a second well struck oil.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/10848\u003C/ref>--2005-- And then a third well struck oil on January 16, 2006.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/10054\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/9556\u003C/ref>--2006--\n\nOn January 9, 2007 Spanish Lookout residents had to clean up oil for half a mile downwind of an oil well, leaving residents fed up with the oil boom.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/6020\u003C/ref>---2007---\n\nSpanish Lookout received its first oil royalty cheque of $433,000 on November 14, 2007.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/6020\u003C/ref>---2007---\n\nBy 2008 Belize Natural Energy was producing 4,400 barrels of oil per day.\u003Cref>https://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=11218\u003C/ref>---2008---\n\nIn 2026 an oil company showed interest in exploring the community's land at [[settlement:374]], and on August 29, 2026 it was reported that a Memorandum of Understanding with Baker Oil had been signed and that the petroleum pad was ready to be built. Drilling was to wait until a stop order on the tract was lifted.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-06-25\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-08-29\u003C/ref> In July 2026 it was reported that crude oil was becoming harder to get.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-07-25\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n## Media\nIn 2006 a documentary of Mennonites in Belize was filmed by Shamax Productions with interviews of residents in Spanish Lookout, [[settlement:151]], [[settlement:25]], [[settlement:291]] and [[settlement:146]]. As of 2026 the videos have 112,000 views on YouTube.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/8250\u003C/ref>---2006---\n\nMax Klymenko (4.14m subscribers) came to Spanish Lookout with his Career Ladder tour of the Caribbean on May 6, 2026.\u003Cref>https://www.facebook.com/61577654525464/posts/career-ladder-is-coming-to-belize-max-klymenkos-viral-series-the-career-ladder-h/122169777464921817/\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n## Visits by Heads of States\n- Early 2000s, **Prime Minister Said Musa** and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dan Silva visited Western Dairies on private business asking for assistance in shutting the border to dairy product imports.\u003Cref>Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dan Silva\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>2025 Private report from a person involved at the time.\u003C/ref>---2000---\n\n- August 2005, **Prime Minister Said Musa** visited Spanish Lookout to inspect the new oil wells.\u003Cref>SLC Monthly Meeting Minutes\u003C/ref>\n\n- March 1, 2008, **Prime Minister Dean Barrow** attended the 50th anniversary celebrations of Spanish Lookout. Barrow had been sworn in as Prime Minister just weeks earlier (February 8, 2008). He was described as “the new Prime Minister” on hand for the event, alongside **Former Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel** (who attended as a special consultant to the government) and Hon. Elvin Penner (the first Mennonite elected to the National Assembly).\u003Cref>https://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/posts/273298.html\u003C/ref>---2008---\n\n- March 30, 2022, **Prime Minister Johnny Briceño** attended and oversaw the ground-breaking ceremony for a new soybean oil refinery in Spanish Lookout. He described the project as an exciting development for Belize's economy and agriculture.\u003Cref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=975312980011016\u003C/ref>---2022---\n\n- December 17, 2025, **Prime Minister Johnny Briceño** served as the keynote speaker at the grand opening of Country Foods' new Tazty corn flour processing plant. The event highlighted job creation, local production, and export potential, with the Prime Minister commending the company's contributions to Belize's food security and economy.\u003Cref>https://lovefm.com/pm-briceno-opens-country-foods-corn-processing-factory-to-boost-food-security/\u003C/ref>---2025---\n\n- February 2, 2026, the **President of Guyana, Mohamed Irfaan Ali** and **Prime Minister Johnny Briceño**, visited Belcar Exports, Quality Poultry Products and Western Dairies as part of his 3 day visit to Belize. The entourage arrived at Belcar in the afternoon in 2 helicopters.\u003Cref>https://newsroom.gy/2026/02/01/president-begins-belize-state-visit/\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1G6rPu14bt/\u003C/ref> Unexpectedly for the community, traffic control during the visit was done by the police.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-02-28\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n- March 12, 2026, **Prime Minister Johnny Briceño** was one of the keynote speakers at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Spanish Lookout Industrial and Commercial Expo.\u003Cref>https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1RS9zGKDvi/\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n- April 23, 2026, **Prime Minister Johnny Briceño** visited the Mennonite Mission schools and had a meeting with the community leaders.\u003Cref>eyewitness\u003C/ref>--2026--\n\n# Infrastructure\n## Airports\n## Airports\nSpanish Lookout has an airstrip.\n\nThe community also had an airstrip at [[settlement:367]], one of the strips used by crop-sprayer planes. In 2026 the Civil Aviation authorities asked for more compliance on these strips, and from August 2026 a chain and cones were to be placed across the road whenever planes were in the area.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-08-29\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n## Waste Management\nThe Duck Run Garbage Dump was opened on September 17, 2002. The old dump site was cleared up.\u003Cref>SLC Meeting Minutes\u003C/ref>\n\n## Roads\nIn 1968 the Government of British Honduras constructed their own ferry across the [[waterway:20]] to officially replace Spanish Lookout's self made ferry at Baking Pot across from Listowel, now Cayo Deaf Institute. The ferry and it's parts were sold at auction on July 31, 1968.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Meeting Minutes\u003C/ref>---1968---\n\nA community law was established in August 1968 that trucks shouldn't be loaded with more than 7 tons to cross the ferry and to drive on Spanish Lookout's roads.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Meeting Minutes\u003C/ref>---1968---\n\nThe Chevron Oil Company used some of Spanish Lookout's roads, but their heavy trucks messed up the roads, so in 1968 they started charging them part of the repair costs.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Meeting Minutes\u003C/ref>---1968---\n\nThe [[road:21]] was upgraded and paved in 2005.\u003Cref>https://www.centralbank.org.bz/docs/default-source/3.3.4-annual-reports/central-bank-annual-report-2005---full-document.pdf?sfvrsn=117ea9cb_0\u003C/ref>---2005---\n\n# Social Services\n## Banking\nFor a long time most of Spanish Lookout's banking was done at Farmers Trading Center, but around 2019 it was handed over to a new institution named Spanish Lookout Credit Union, but still situated at FTC. ---2019---\n\nOn August 22, 2023 a grand opening was held for the new building across the road from Western Dairies.\u003Cref>https://www.facebook.com/breakingbelizenews/posts/the-grand-opening-of-this-financial-institution-is-a-significant-event-for-the-c/674444041380867/\u003C/ref>---2023---\n\nScotiabank was the first national bank established in Spanish Lookout sometime around 2008. [Needs exact date]---2008---\n\nFive bank robbers robbed Scotiabank on March 30, 2010, killed a security guard and got away with over $300,000.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/30435\u003C/ref>---2010---\n\nScotiabank closed its doors on April 20, 2018.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/160852\u003C/ref> And then on January 16, 2019 Heritage Bank held it's inauguration ceremony in the same building.---2018---\n\n## Education\nIn 2026 a group of community members proposed a private, unaffiliated high school for Spanish Lookout. At the community meeting of May 30, 2026 Harry Letkeman read a summary of its vision: to serve Spanish Lookout members with a Christ-centered education and to hire local staff whenever possible. The volunteer board of directors was Jacob K Guenther, Henry K Wiebe, Herman Thiessen, Harry Letkeman and Jefferey Reimer. The board asked for a 10-year rental agreement for 5 acres at one of three sites near Countryside Park, but the request was not approved at that meeting. A second request, for funding, was postponed.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-05-30\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\nOn July 25, 2026 the group presented two land options, north of Countryside Park and across the road close to the airstrip. It also planned to invite Randy Sawatsky from Paraguay to train the staff, to choose a curriculum with interested parents, and eventually to start a trade school. The proposal was not approved.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-07-25\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n## Funeral Services\nIn 2026 the community bought a vehicle in Mexico to use as a hearse. At the meeting of June 25, 2026 members decided to have the body work and paint job done in Mexico, which meant the hearse would be white.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-06-25\u003C/ref> The hearse had arrived by the meeting of September 26, 2026 and was almost ready for use, and donations were invited toward its cost.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-09-26\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n## Police & Security\nOn January 4, 2000 the Government of Belize handed $30,000 to community elders Denver Plett, Henry Dueck and Frank Reimer for the construction of a police station in Spanish Lookout. The Mennonites were to build the station themselves on land the community had donated for the project.\u003Cref>https://archive.channel5belize.com/archives/21745\u003C/ref>---2000---\n\nSome years before 2026 the Annual General Meeting decided not to keep security under the Spanish Lookout Community. In February 2026 a group of men offered to take over traffic and security, overseen by a committee of one member from Traffic, one from the Business Chamber and the Falcon Security team. At the meeting of February 28, 2026 the meeting decided to wait for the final terms and conditions before going ahead.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-02-28\u003C/ref> On May 30, 2026 members approved a contract with Falcon Security, a licensed and insured security team, for one year.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-05-30\u003C/ref>\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-06-25\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\nAt the meeting of March 28, 2026 members agreed to look further into putting gates at the entrances of Spanish Lookout, an idea discussed years earlier.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-03-28\u003C/ref> On September 26, 2026, because of concern about things happening at the gates, the meeting supported installing community cameras at the Green Hills gate and at the Los Tambos/Yalbac junction.\u003Cref>Spanish Lookout Monthly Committee Meeting Minutes, 2026-09-26\u003C/ref>---2026---\n\n# Subdivisions\nSpanish Lookout consists of Spanish Lookout proper, two attached farmland localities, and seven farmland exclaves. There is also one enclave within Spanish Lookout beside Aguacate Lagoon. Spanish Lookout proper is further divided into political subdivisions, villages, and neighbourhoods.\n\nSubdivisions and villages are defined by the driveway or side street that connects to the main road; all land belonging to the owner of that driveway is treated as part of the same village or subdivision. As a result, boundaries remain fluid and can shift with land sales. Neighbourhoods, by contrast, are created when residents subdivide their own land and assign a name to the new section.\n\n## History\nSpanish Lookout was originally founded with five villages: [[settlement:359]], [[settlement:363]], [[settlement:454]], [[settlement:362]], and [[settlement:636]]. [[settlement:360]] was added in 1974, followed by [[settlement:365]] in 1976. [[settlement:633]], [[settlement:361]], and [[settlement:382]] were incorporated in 1994; [[settlement:361]] was added in 2003 and [[settlement:634]] in 2004.\n\nIn 2017, formal political subdivisions were established: [[settlement:359]], [[settlement:363]], [[settlement:360]], [[settlement:454]], [[settlement:362]], [[settlement:361]], [[settlement:364]], and [[settlement:365]]. 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At the Annual General Meeting that happens in January each year, community members are given a paper with 9 potential streets to upgrade and asked to number them by order. One or two of the top 3 voted on roads then get upgraded with chipseal during the year.\n\nIn January 2026 an additional paving scheme was initiated where residents along a road could entirely fund the paving of their street and then the community would refund the money over the next 10 years at a 4% interest rate.\n\n## Naming Convention\nMain roads are spaced a mile apart more or less. The north-south streets are named alphabetically starting on the east and the east-west streets are numbered starting from the south. 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