History
The roadway signed today as SR 369 makes its first appearance on Georgia state highway maps in 1940, when the 17.5 miles (28.2 km) section of the route between SR 9 (co-signed with US 19 at the time) and Gainesville is shown as unimproved but maintained. This road is signed as SR 141. By early in 1944, the Hall County portion of the road had been improved to feature hard surface. It was 1957 before the entirety of that stretch of the route had been covered by hard surface.
By 1953, a U-shaped paved connecting road is shown running north for about 4 miles (6.4 km), and then east for another 4 miles (6.4 km) from SR 20 to SR 9, which then continues as SR 141. This routing appears to correspond to portions of today's Hurt Bridge Road from SR 20 north to Holbrook Road, and a portion of roadway curving northeast to just west of Matt, which does not appear to exist today. By 1966, the west-to-east portion of this connecting road had been extended another 4 miles (6.4 km) further west, and was by then signed as SR 141, but did not yet connect to SR 20. This extension appears to run to what is today called Heardsville Road, which runs south-to-north from SR 20 through the communities of Ducktown and Heradsville to intersect with today's SR 369. Sometime in 1970, the route as it runs today was not only completed and extended to its intersection with SR 20 near Macedonia, but was also signed as SR 369.
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