Rabbit Hash, Opposite Rising Sun, Indiana

 

The documentary, Rabbit Hash (the Center of the
Universe) had it's Midwestern premier at the Madison
 Theater in Covington.   You can buy the DVD here, the
site of the Rabbit Hash Historical Society. This is their promo shot
of Rabbit Hash, and is from the 1907 Flood (For the record, you
get that the “Hollywood-type” sign is a Photoshop job, right?)

How many stories of how Rabbit Hash got its name
 have you heard?  We've got 9 of them, Here.

Across the Ohio from Rising Sun, Indiana

        

Early Rabbit Hash - Rising Sun Ferries

 

The first motor hearse in Rising Sun, a Dodge, returns from Rabbit Hash

 

Rabbit Hash - Rising Sun Ferry The Mildred, 1922-1945

“C. G. Riddell and Ben Wilson have rented the Rabbit Hash and Rising Sun ferry for five years of Captain  Bob Piatt.  Mr. Piatt will leave our town the first of next month.  We are sorry that the captain is going away.” Covington's Daily Commonwealth, September 28, 1881	“Ben Wilson and C. G. Riddell are having new horse power put in the ferryboat.  P. G. and Z. T. Holmes and  Keene Robbins are doing the work. They will have the boat in running order by the middle of the week.” Covington's Daily Commonwealth, July 11, 1883
The Ohio County, Indiana's history of the Rabbit Hash ferry is here.

The Rising Sun Wharf
Steamers landed at the wharf, but the ferry landed on the shore.

 

The Katie Piatt.  She was lost in the 1918 ice Thanks to Big Bruce for identifying the ferry for me, and for the pic on the right.

 

Rev. Twinkle Preaches in Rabbit Hash, 1917

 

sketch by Gloria Wolfe	sketch by Caroline Williams

 

 

Rabbit Hash General Store, since 1831 photo on the right is by Paul Briol

In 1894, Reuben Gold Thwaites, the director of the  Wisconsin State Historical Society, and a noted historian, traveled the length of the Ohio River, with his family and  his trusty Number 2 Kodak Camera.  These 3 pictures were taken by him, at Rabbit Hash

Well, of course, if this happened, it happened in Rabbit Hash. If this happened...

C. W. Craig's General Store, 1954	C. W. Craig & Clayton Ryle, owners of the two Rabbit Hash Businesses

 

Rabbit Hash, Kentucky	Rabbit Hash, Kentucky

 

Rabbit Hash Ferry from a Facebook post by the Ohio County Historical Museum	The Steamer Bonanza leaving Rising Sun from a Facebook post by the Ohio County Historical Museum

 

 

That's the former Doctor's Office on the right - last used circa 1934	General Store, 1963	Rabbit Hash School Bus

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Outside a church near Rabbit Hash
That's Rosa Lee Reed Vollmer, who had returned to a reunion that took place at the
 church in the photo. With her are her two daughters, Helen and Gertrude, and Gertrude's
daughter, Helen.  Identify of the man is unknown.  Thanks to Rose Berry for the picture.

 

The Rising Sun Wharf Boat, Flora, c. 1910	1871 Gravel Bar near Rabbit Hash	Aerial of Rabbit Hash

 

Ice of 1917-18 at Fernbank, Ohio Side from a Facebook post of the Saylor Park Historical Society	Ice of 1903, at Front Street in Rising Sun from a Facebook post by the Ohio county Historical Museum

 

Rabbit Hash in the 1937 Flood

 

Rabbit Hash suffered from the 1884 Ohio River flood:

“At Rabbit Hash a depot building was caught, and further down in the bottom a freight car was caught.  Maybe they will catch a railroad during the next flood.”	“If you want to come to this place, just start in this direction and continue to travel until you come to the dirtiest, filthiest, muddiest, and worst wrecked place anyone ever saw, and then stop, and we will assure you to be in Rabbit Hash.”
A more detailed description is here.
The three items above are all from the Boone County Recorder of March 5, 1884.

River Ridge Park

Contemporary Rabbit Hash Brochure

 

Lots of current Rabbit Hash pictures are at Rabbithash.com.