An earlier KY 289 was a road from Golden Pond northward to Eddyville, traversing parts of Trigg and Lyon Counties in western Kentucky.

A small portion remained north from Golden Pond but that was decommissioned the next year, and it is now Forest Road 134.

KY 289 begins at an intersection with US 68/KY 55 in Campbellsville, Taylor County, heading north on two-lane undivided Lebanon Avenue.

The route becomes Old Lebanon Road and passes through more areas of homes and businesses, where it runs to the west of a lake.

The road leaves Campbellsville and heads into farmland with some residential development, curving northwest and intersecting the eastern terminus of KY 3211.