Shipyard

Category
Destination
Type of Destination
Farm, Village
Population
3,497
District/Region
Orange Walk
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Description
Highlights
  • Mennonite Culture
  • The New River
  • Fishing & Farming

About Location
Shipyard, also known as Shipyard Colony, is a Mennonite village that acts as an administrative village in the Orange Walk District. It was founded by Old Colony Mennonites from the Chihuahua and Durango states in Mexico in 1958.

Most of the population of Shipyard are Plautdietsch-speaking farmers, carpenters, and mechanics. Most of the population of Shipyard are quite traditional in lifestyles, still using horse and buggy for transportation and tractors with steel wheels for fieldwork.
 
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