page_title: Indiana State Road 69
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Indiana State Road 69 / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Northern terminus of Indiana State Road 69 at Interstate 64 in Posey County.
context_page_description: State Road 69 is a part of the Indiana State Road system that runs between Hovey Lake Fish and Wildlife Area and Griffin in US state of Indiana. The 35.07 miles of SR 69 that lie within Indiana serve as a major conduit. Some of the highway is listed on the National Highway System. Various sections are urban two-lane highway, four-lane divided highway and rural two-lane highway. The highway passes through residential, industrial and commercial properties.
  SR 69 was first designated as a state road in 1931. SR 69 replaced the original State Road 20 designation of the highway which dated back to the formation of the Indiana state road system. SR 20 ran from Mount Vernon to New Harmony. SR 69 also replaced the second designation of the highway, SR 65, from the Ohio River to New Harmony.
  Despite its proximity to Interstate 69, the two routes have no relation to each other.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Northern terminus of State Road 69 at Interstate 64 near Griffin
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