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History · Rabbit Hash

Rabbit Hash’s post office opened in 1879, and 42% of its homes were built before 1940

5 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 12 buildings. Below: maps from 1943 on.

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How Rabbit Hash began

When was Rabbit Hash founded?

1879

The Rabbit Hash post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Piatt's Landing (1833), East Bend (1856) and Carlton (1879), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 254147 years
Founding year: the first Rabbit Hash post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Rabbit Hash’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Rabbit Hash are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Rabbit Hash.Landmarks on the Register5 places on the National Register.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rabbit Hash’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Rabbit Hash had its own post office from 1879 to 1912. Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Piatt's Landing
1833–1848
East Bend
1856–1877
Carlton
1879–1879
Rabbit Hash
1879–1912
18301930today
Gone or out of use
Dolph LandinglocaleEast Bend Post Officepost officeMeeks Ferry LandinglocalePiatts LandinglocalePiatts Landing Post Officepost officeRabbit Hash Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Rabbit Hash
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

On the National Register

5 listings protect 19 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
5
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
19
each building in a district counts
first listed
1974
Piatt's Landing
Rabbit Hash General StoreRabbit Hash Historic DistrictPiatt's Landing, built 1800B. C. Calvert HouseEast Bend Church
BuildingsDistricts

Architectural styles listings

Late Victorian1
Italianate1
Queen Anne1
Folk Victorian1
Greek Revival1
Rabbit Hash General StoreBuilding
Rabbit Hash Historic DistrictLate Victorian
All 5 listings
Piatt's LandingBuilding · listed 1974B. C. Calvert HouseBuilding · listed 1989East Bend ChurchBuilding · listed 1989

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story so far

Rabbit Hash, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Rabbit Hash yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Rabbit Hash is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 254 at the 2020 census. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The town is notable for its name, its string of canine mayors, and its historic general store (c. 1831) which was largely destroyed by fire in 2016.

Its first post office opened in 1879. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 315 to 254 (-19%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Rabbit Hash, 1800 to 1943

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1800BuiltPiatt's Landing is built
  3. 1833Post officeThe Piatt's Landing post office opens
  4. 1848Post officeThe Piatt's Landing post office closes
  5. 1856Post officeThe East Bend post office opens
  6. 1877Post officeThe East Bend post office closes
  7. 1879Post officeThe Carlton post office opens
  8. 1879Post officeThe Carlton post office closes
  9. 20th century
  10. 1943On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Rabbit Hash, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Porch scene in the little Ohio River "country town" of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, which has become somewhat of a tourist at…2020Porch scene in the little Ohio River "country town" o…Scene in the little Ohio River "country town" of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, which has become somewhat of a tourist attracti…2020Scene in the little Ohio River "country town" of Rabb…Scene in the little Ohio River "country town" of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, which has become somewhat of a tourist attracti…2020Scene in the little Ohio River "country town" of Rabb…One of several countrified spots in the tiny settlement of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, on the Ohio River2020One of several countrified spots in the tiny settleme…Signage in the Rabbit Hash Historic District2015Signage in the Rabbit Hash Historic DistrictAntique Barn in the Rabbit Hash Historic District2015Antique Barn in the Rabbit Hash Historic District
On the map

Rabbit Hash on the map, 1943 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Rabbit Hash. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Rabbit Hash on the 1943 USGS mapRabbit Hash on the 1981 USGS map1943Rising Sun sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Rabbit Hash.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Belleview7 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Rabbit Hash’s history

What year was Rabbit Hash founded?

The Rabbit Hash post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Rabbit Hash?

5 listings: 4 buildings, among them the Piatt's Landing (listed 1974, the first), and 1 historic district, the Rabbit Hash Historic District, with 12 contributing buildings. 19 historic buildings in all.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), the Library of Congress (4), the National Register of Historic Places (5), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.