Plans To Build Day Care Over Historic Graveyard Prompts Outrage
Cemetery Was Part Of Church Destroyed By Fire
POSTED: Thursday, July 12, 2007
UPDATED: 3:25 pm EDT July 12,
2007
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.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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