GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Resident Disputes Negative Findings on Ancestors' Graves

MONTVERDE, FL-It’s a big deal to nobody but Dana Combs, a resident of Choctaw descent who is fighting Lake County on the nearby mixed-use 1,500-acre Pine Island development.

The project overlooks Lake Apopka near County Road 455 under which a Timucuan tribe burial site is located, Combs contends. The site is 40 miles west of Downtown Orlando.

She argues 500 single-family and multifamily homes and two 18-hole golf courses planned at the site by Ginn Development Co. of Palm Coast, FL should be not be allowed over ground sacred to Native Americans. But a just-completed independent archaeological investigation ordered by Lake County finds evidence of human life at the County Road 455 location but no traces of human bones.