Now about that name…

 
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Over a century ago, rabbits were the prized cash crop of Chatham County. Many decades later, Sarah and Austin bought a mill house in bynum, North Carolina, on the banks of the Haw River. the house was once the home of a mill working family. They played music and the husband was a member of the mill-sponsored stringband, The Chatham Rabbits. You can read more about the original band and Bynum here.

We aim to pay respect to the original Chatham Rabbits.

 
Nothing that falls a victim to the hunter’s gun throughout the entire confines of North Carolina can compare with the Chatham rabbit.
— — CHATHAM RECORD, 1906 NOV 22