As early as 1862, Jane Hume owned this piece of land called Little Belize.[1] In 1963 it was still owned by Jane Hume.[2]
Mennonites from Shipyard needed more land for farming, so they began a new colony in the Corozal District in 1979.
In 2006 a documentary of Mennonites in Belize was filmed with interviews of residents in Spanish Lookout, Lower Barton Creek, Blue Creek, Shipyard and Little Belize.[3]