Rabbit Hash, Kentucky

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Rabbit Hash General Store

Rabbit Hash, Kentucky is a small hamlet in Boone County, Kentucky, USA, noted primarily for its name, which may derive from the historic use of the local rabbit population as food. The hamlet's most notable building, the Rabbit Hash General Store, is regarded as the best known and best preserved country store in Kentucky. Rabbit Hash is unincorporated and therefore without fixed boundaries, which makes its exact population a matter of opinion, but the population is generally regarded as between four and 40 depending on how the boundaries are drawn. In 1998 a dog was elected mayor in an unofficial "election", an event covered in the documentary "Rabbit Hash (The Center of the Universe)", and in 2004 a dog was elected mayor once again.

Rabbit Hash is a motorcycle Mecca, with motorcycles outnumbering cars.^{[citation needed]}

The historic Piatt family established a ferry in Rabbit Hash in the early 1800s going across the Ohio River to Indiana. Some of the stories of their run-ins with criminals along the river are colorful and legendary. The Piatts and other farming families in the area would take produce from their farms and send them via flatboat down to Natchez and New Orleans.^{[citation needed]}

After the civil war ended and the slaves were freed, farm production became far less profitable with increased labor costs.