[3] When the hospital opened in 1912, it was a private institution managed by the Superintendent Edward Peyton Ritchings, M.D.. A portion of the construction was funded by the state legislature in fiscal year 1912 and 1913 in the amount of $15,000 for the building, $5,000 for additions, and $5,000 for maintenance.

[5] In 1923, the hospital constructed new buildings as a tuberculosis sanatorium under the direction and contributions of Dr. George W.

[6] A few years later, in 1975, Senator Homer White, working with the MAC program, conducted a study to convert the buildings into an elderly care center.

The buildings were converted into an elderly care center and retirement apartment complex.

It was leased for years by the local nonprofit, MAC, Inc., an agency to maintain active citizens.