Outside, you’ll find these things to see and do while you’re on the area: The tunnel of Tunnel Hill State Trail. Inside, you’ll not only find your favorite road trip snacks like our iconic Stuckey’s Pecan Log Rolls and pecan pralines, but you’ll also find some of the classic road trip souvenirs you remember us for like Lone Ranger bow and arrow toys, falsa blankets, tiki bar decor, and the kitschiest salt and pepper shakers in Illinois. Though Vienna is one of our newest stores, it still gives the same nostalgic feels as the classic Stuckey’s stores you remember from the family vacations of your childhood. Of course, with the roads came motels, restaurants, gas stations and Stuckey’s. Nevertheless, just as they had done in the beginning, Vienna built roads – US 24, IL 45, and IL 146 in the mid 1900s, and has continued to prosper as a result. Like all railroad boomtowns, however, Vienna almost went bust as the railroads declined in the early- to mid-20 th century and automobiles became the favored source of transportation. CEO Stephanie Stuckey standing outside of the Stuckey’s in Vienna. ![]() What’s more, the railroad also provided the Viennese with more jobs as railroad workers and station agents. The railroad also brought more people into town and restaurants and hotels would successful businesses in Vienna as a result. Where families worked to just to survive before the railroad, after the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad was built through Vienna around 1872, the town and its people became more prosperous as they were now able to ship goods farther across the nation. If you’ve read many of these articles about things to see and do around a Stuckey’s, you’ll notice that nothing turned a fledgling town into a boom town quite like the railroad. After Vienna became incorporated in 1837, the town started building mills, schools, newspapers, general stores, churches, a tannery, a hotel, and the first wool-carding machine in Southern Illinois. ![]() As the number of business grew, so did the population. The roads and the post office soon made Vienna the hub of the county, and small businesses started opening all over the budding town. As a result, they chose Vienna in 1818.Īs soon as the new county court went into session, the first thing they did was have roads built into the town. You see, the folks of Johnson County, Illinois, wanted a new county seat that was a little more central. The town of Vienna started out of necessity.
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