In the 1920s there was a river boat service from Belize City to Orange Walk Town, stopping at Pueblo Nuevo, Caledonia and San Estevan. On the return trip to the city they would carry goods from the villages. From Caledonia they loaded pigs, alligator skins, and tobacco leaves bound into bundles. But after the Philip Goldson Highway was constructed towards Belize City in the 1930s, the river boat traffic died out.[1]
In 2013 a construction company destroyed a 2,000-year-old Mayan pyramid at the nearby Noh Mul Archaeological Site using bulldozers to extract gravel for road fill, sparking outrage and comments from NGOs and archaeologists around the world.[2]