Posted on 07/12/2007 8:07:50 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- Approved plans to build a children's day care center over a historic cemetery in Seminole County has prompted outrage in the community.
The Seminole County Planning and Zoning Board approved Bright Horizons' proposal Wednesday night to eventually bulldoze the Paola Historical Cemetery located near Heathrow.
The cemetery was part of a Presbyterian church that burned down in the late 1800s.
It is believed there are at least a dozen people buried at the site but no one knows exactly how many.
Wednesday night, commissioners received "an earful" from neighbors concerned about the prospect of putting a day care over the graves.
"When (children) come home and say, 'Mommy, Mommy, there's bones under our day care,' that's going to upset everybody," resident Cindy Crain said.
Neighbors said to level the cemetery for money is a sacrilege, the report said.
The plan still needs approval from Seminole County commissioners.
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Man...didn’t they see poltergeist? :))
Hey, they aren’t bringing in any revenue or paying taxes anymore.
some more results of decades of Socialist Indoctrination camps - aka, government public schools???
"No right, no wrong...no respect"
I thought it was a federal crime to disturb what could be an Indian burial ground? They sure wouldn’t touch it if a Muslim was buried there.
If it was an Indian mound, they would just build around it. There is Creek/Seminole mound in a neighborhood along the St. Johns river near this place.....homes on all three sides of it.
That is kinda creepy...in a Poltergisty kinda way.
comments?
That's true, but as registered Democrats they vote in every election.
About all that is sacred these days is money.
"I just don't know why Billy doesn't want to go to day care anymore."
Now that might raise some flags if those ballots starting going to a child care address. Maybe they should build an adult day care instead.
It needs to be left as it is. Looks like a peaceful spot. Leave them in peace
“If it’s allowed - it will set a precedent -
some more results of decades of Socialist Indoctrination camps - aka, government public schools???”
Precedent has been set years ago. It’s more like money, money, money than indoctrination.
LOL
Heathrow is the ritzy part of Seminole county.
For posterity:
Directions: Paola Historical Cemetery is also referred to as Banana Lake
Cemetery and Paola Church Yard Cemetery. This land was originally the old
Wieser property/burial ground, which was later “conditionally” deeded for
a Presbyterian Church which burned down in 1928. Burials continued on this
land and there are about 40-60 graves which were for the most part marked
with wooden crosses which have since deteriorated or been vandalized. The
earliest record of a burial is about 1855 but their might be a few earlier
graves that are unknown. This cemetery is one of the last historical
remains of Paola Town in Seminole County. It is also estimated to be one
of the earliest non-aboriginal burial grounds in Central Florida.
The owner of the land on the corner where the cemetery sits is trying to
make it a commercial zone along with a couple of the houses on the same
corner. He did move some of the bodies out of the wooded section and
re-interned them in to the small white picket fence are where the
headstones are now located. A couple of the stones are damaged and some
were even covered with dirt and leaves. here is still a legal battle going
on with this cemetery and we are not shure what will happen to it and it’s
burials. The Sanford City Museum across from Flew World had microfilm
records of the burials in Paola Cemetery.
BUCHANAN, Wm. B., b. May 30 1854 d. May 6 1917
C.W.M., (not able to read)
DOGGART, Karine V.C., b. Feb 9 1891 d. Nov 13 1922
DORIGO, Caroline, b. Mar 22 1826 Philadelphia, Pa. d. Sep 13 1899 Seabreeze, Fla.
GRAY, Edna, b. Dec 23 1838 or 1888 d. Dec 6 1918 (Wife of Wm. B. Buchanan)
GULLEN, R., d. Oct 31 1892 (age 77yrs.)
MUNSON, Chas. W., b. Nov 17 1862 d. Apr 3 1882 (Drowned in Lake Monroe)
MUNSON, Myra, b. Jan 23 1804 d. Oct 21 1832
PATTON, Matilda M., b. Jun 11 1806 d. Dec 13 1887
TENNEY, Luman, b. May 18 1877 d. Dec 25 1882 (Son of L.H. & F.D. Tenney; born in Minneapolis, Minn.)
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/fl/seminole/cemetery/paola.txt
this should be denied...the owner knew what was on it
razing cemetaries in the US is a bad precedent...we have plenty of land
in Nashville....you buy them....you preserve them and build around them...as it should be
I had thought that a graveyard could not be disturbed for one hundred years after the last burial. Perhaps I am wrong. I have been before.
I dunno. My family has an old graveyard in West Virginia. It dates from the early 1800s. It’s all overgrown, the stones are completely obliterated and trees have grown all over it.
I’d like to move them (probably about 20) to a new location but having a hard time convincing everyone else.
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