Under the Honduras Land Titles Act of 1861, the British Honduras Company purchased around 1 million acres of land, which included the land where Settlement 484 and Settlement 234 and other Indian settlements were located.[1]
In 1866 the Icaiche tribe under Marcus Canul attacked Qualm Hill. Fearing that the San Pedro Maya had allied with the Icaiche, the British responded by marching on Settlement 484, the principal settlement of the group in December of 1866, but the San Pedro Maya defeated the British and routed their forces.
On January 29, 1867 British troops retaliated by burning San Pedro Sirís and the nearby hamlets of Santa Theresa, Settlement 234, Naranjal and Cerro, after an earlier British force had been driven back from the village in December 1866.[2]
In 1882, Santiago Pech, the leader of the Icaiche Maya had elected an alcalde for San Pedro Siris.[3]
Then in the 1930s the BEC evicted and destroyed all Maya villages on their lands.[4]
In 1894, St. Peter Roman Catholic Church had 80 attendees.[5]