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It's still there. This was the tuberculosis isolation hospital. They built a town admin building right near by to make it harder to get into. The fires were vandalism and the town had a really hard time getting back there to put it out.
If you can get a hold of the the official Hanson Town Book(Ya know each town has one, All the same format with history of the town and the houses) In it there is pictures of it in it's hay day.
At the time it was believed that fresh air was good for TB(In tropical climates it can be). So one of the pictures is of the patients in their dressing gowns outside, in the winter playing ring around the rosie. They had now idea they were killing them faster. There is another picture of the staff and an outside shot of the hospital itself. Many a child in our area went through the great rite of passage by sneaking in and seeing who can last the longest.