 State Route 69 | ||||
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| Lead Mine Road | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by VDOT | ||||
| Length | 3.59 mi[1] (5.78 km) | |||
| Existed | 1958–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  SR 636 in Austinville | |||
 I-77 at Poplar Camp | ||||
| East end |  US 52 at Poplar Camp | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Virginia | |||
| Counties | Wythe, Carroll | |||
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State Route 69 (SR 69) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known as Lead Mine Road, the state highway runs 3.59 miles (5.78 km) from SR 636 in Austinville east to U.S. Route 52 (US 52) in Poplar Camp. SR 69 is the last remnant of a much longer route. At its peak from 1940 to 1945, this route (then numbered State Route 81) ran from State Route 91 at Lodi east via St. Clair Bottom, Sugar Grove, Cedar Springs, Speedwell, Porters Crossroads, and Austinville to today's SR 69. However, it was never fully continuous; portions from Sugar Grove to Cedar Springs and west of Porters Crossroads to east of Austinville were secondary routes. The full length of this route as it existed and was planned is now part of SR 762, part of SR 660, all of SR 650, part of SR 16 (and SR 695, its former alignment at Sugar Grove), all of SR 614, part of SR 749, part of US 21, part of SR 690, a small piece of SR 642, part of SR 619, part of SR 636, and SR 69.