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Perhaps the poker players gave Rabbit Gum its name, maybe as a euphemism for their activities. A gum is a two-compartment trap and because the old schoolhouse had two front doors, it looked just like a gum.
Also, there were rabbits in the briar patch on the land and maybe they were trapped there in a gum. No one really knows the origin of the name but it has been Rabbit Gum for many years.
However, it is known that it became the town’s first public school in 1871 and that it
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