Qualm Hill was a logging camp of the Belize Estate and Produce Company (BEC), situated in the Northern District.
In 1866 the Icaiche tribe under Marcus Canul attacked Qualm Hill. This event resulted in the death of two men and the capture and subsequent ransom of an English foreman, a Canadian, and dozens of Creole men, women, and children inhabiting the logging camp.[1]
Fearing that the San Pedro Maya had allied with the Icaiche, the British responded by marching on San Pedro Siris, the principal settlement of the group, in December of 1866, but the San Pedro Maya defeated the British and routed their forces. The British eventually retaliated and burned San Pedro Siris in 1867.[1]