THE PLACE · POMONA
A little village.
A long story.
Before Lee Blue was here, Pomona already had a story of its own.
The area was once known as Macaroni Hill, a name that appears
in historical records from the late 1800s. The name Pomona
began appearing in the early 1900s, connected to the citrus
orchards that were beginning to shape the Stann Creek Valley.
In 1913, Alfred E. Vine, manager of the British Honduras
Syndicate, named his citrus property here
Pomona Holdings. The name stayed — and eventually
became the name of the village.
Citrus, agriculture, the Stann Creek River Valley and the people
who built their lives here became part of Pomona's identity.
The valley was also connected to the early Stann Creek Railway,
which reached Pomona in the first decade of the 20th century.
Today, Pomona is not a resort town.
It is a place where you can experience another side of Belize —
closer to everyday life, surrounded by green hills and the
landscape of the North Stann Creek Valley.
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