A road was built from there northwest, over ground that is now impassable, toward the old cemetery behind the modern Bethel Cemetery. This bridge was near the present bridge on Illinois Route 142. In 1820–1821, Ben Hood and Carter Wilkey built a bridge over Casey Creek, to the southeast of town. However, it was apparent to the early settlers that the town would fail without roads. It passed through, or near, what are now Opdyke, East Salem, Idlewood, Dix and Walnut Hill. The road entered the county at its southeast corner. Vernon, avoiding the swamps to the south, but bypassing Mt. Vernon was first settled, the Goshen Road made a wide arc across Jefferson County, crossing Casey Creek and the Big Muddy north of Mt. In the early 19th century the Goshen Road crossed Illinois in a northwesterly direction from Old Shawneetown, Illinois to the Goshen Settlement, near what is now Edwardsville. Travelers had to get there by either following the high ground from the north or crossing the swamps from the south. When the town was founded, there was no road to it. The town was named for George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon, which was named for Edward Vernon, a British naval hero. Vernon was founded in 1817 by Zadok Casey, who was elected to the State Senate in 1822 and was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1833.
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