(58) Cherokee County 6.22.2025

We also technically started Cherokee County on Friday (6.20.2025) so we could peruse the main street while shops were open since we knew most of the shops would be closed on Sunday. There were a lot of neat shops and definitely worth the stop!

 

Cherokee County officially started off with a driving tour of many of the small towns spread throughout the county:

 

Marcus

Cleghorn

Meriden

 

Our first real stop was the Fifty-Nine Grind Coffee Shop in Cherokee.

We had called to try to schedule a tour of the Cherokee Mental Health Institute (the Joseph Tallman Museum), but they weren’t able to find anyone available so we ended up just driving by to check out the grounds. It was wild to see how big the building and grounds were.

We headed to the main street area and checked out the: 

historical Lewis Hotel

and did an audio tour of the outside of the Historic Illinois Central Railroad Depot

Quick stop by the Carnegie Library, which is closed on Sundays.

Lunch at Carey’s Café

Did some antiquing at Redefine Vintage and Antiques. We tried to stop by the Corner Flea Market, but it was unexpectedly closed for the day ☹

 

We ended our time in Cherokee County at Sanford Museum & Planetarium. We made sure to do Cherokee County on a Sunday because they do showings in the Planetarium only on Wednesdays and Sundays at 4pm! It was a good museum; the planetarium show was short, but we thoroughly enjoyed it and are so glad we came on a Sunday to see it!

 

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Other Things to See/Do:

• Hanover Heritage Society House, Aurelia
• Silver Sioux Rec Area, Cherokee
• Grand Meadow Heritage Center, Washta
• Hoefling’s Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze, Marcus
• Marcus Historical Center, Marcus