Employment at Highbridge Springs
Join our team! We have an opening for a Route Delivery Driver.
- Established routes and no weekends
- Must have 2 years truck driving experience
- Must be highly dependable
- Must be able to lift 40 lbs repetitively
Serious inquiries only – email resume to: [email protected]. No phone calls, please, as our operators are busy with customer service duties.
Our company's namesake
High Bridge outside Wilmore, KY circa 1907. Designed by John Roebling, the bridge opened in 1877 and is the second highest bridge over a navigable stream in the entire United States.
Highbridge's Namesake: High Bridge
Our company, like the community of High Bridge, KY gets its name from a landmark railroad bridge which, at 308 feet tall, is the highest bridge over a navigable stream in the entire United States.
This railroad suspension bridge is considered one of the most remarkable engineering undertakings of the 19th century. High Bridge was designed by John Roebling, who also designed New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge, and connects Jessamine and Mercer Counties.
We thought our customers might be interested in High Bridge – the bridge. It has quite an interesting history, and the community around it has been closely allied with the fortunes of the bridge since construction first began. Originally planned as a suspension bridge for the Lexington and Danville railroad, it was designed by John Roebling, who later would design the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge and the Roebling Suspension Bridge which today connects Covington to Cincinnati. Work began in the 1850s with towers for the suspension cables being built during that time. Construction was suspended during the Civil War. Afterwards, plans were altered and construction was resumed by the Cincinnati Southern Railway and the bridge opened in 1877 as the first cantilever bridge built on the American continent.
All aboard!
A train travels across the 1,125 foot long expanse of the High Bridge circa 1907.
It was dedicated by president Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879. The 275/308-foot tall and 1,125 foot long bridge crosses the deep gorge of the Kentucky River between Jessamine and Mercer counties. Being, at the time, the highest railroad bridge in North America and the highest railroad bridge in the world, High Bridge at once became a tourist attraction. Its popularity was at a peak during the first 20 years of the 1900s.
A new bridge was built around the existing structure in 1911, and expanded to two tracks in 1929. The same year, the large twin towers were torn down, and its popularity slowly faded. High Bridge still attracts interested parties who marvel at its amazing superstructure.
Other attractions in the area today are High Bridge Park, offering a lovely view of the confluence of the Kentucky and Dix Rivers, High Bridge Quarry and Lock #7.
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