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It sits abandoned, surrounded by a chain link fence-paint peeling, tiles falling from the roof, windows boarded or broken. The weeds have taken over. Memories linger like phantoms in the old rooms and corridors. Local youth say it's haunted. “That must be the walkway to the cafeteria,” says Norma Baker. She stands next to Jim Devers and points to a covered corridor, which attaches two sections of the building. Norma and Jim came to Keene to reminisce about a time so many years ago when they both were temporary residents of this old building. Back then it was called the Kern County Preventorium and was built on property behind Stony Brook Retreat, a tuberculosis sanatorium for adults located in Keene on what is now the Caesar Chavez Center. Children were sent to the preventorium if they needed to gain weight or if they had been exposed to tuberculosis. Keene's climate was considered ideal for healing. In 1930 E.A. Schaper, M.D., a physician who resided at the...
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