History
By 1923 the route that SR 69 takes today was signed as SR 20 from Mount Vernon to New Harmony, the rest was county roads. In 1927, the whole segment of SR 20 was renumber SR 65. The number was changed one last time, in 1931, this time to SR 69. In that year the route was extended south to the Ohio River, with a ferry across the river to Kentucky.
Eventually it was connected to Interstate 64 at the Griffin exit and rerouted to bypass New Harmony. In the late 1990s, the highway was routed onto the new William Keck Bypass on the eastern side of Mount Vernon.
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