10/27/2026
FROM THE ARCHIVES: This penny postcard shows the Packwood Hotel as it looked in 1914.
Established in 1912, the hotel would have been only two years old at the time the photo was taken.
The people on the front porch are thought to be the Coombs family that originally built the hotel.
β OrIginally submitted by Carolyn Watkins for The Chronicle's Our Hometowns books