Historic Sites

Clermont County has a wealth of impressive sites to tempt any history buff, including historic homes, vital connections to the Underground Railroad and wartime artifacts.

  • Andrew Powell Home Site

    This was once the residence of Andrew Powell. Powell was a wealthy businessman who used his ornate and well-known private carriage to transport fugitive slaves from the Ohio River to Felicity. 

    416 Union St.
    Felicity, OH 45120
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  • Arthur Fee Home Site

    On this parcel of land was once the residence of Arthur Fee (1791-1879), a member of the prominent abolitionist Fee Family. He was a cousin of the Fees in Moscow and a second cousin of John Gregg Fee, the noted Kentucky abolitionist. Arthur Fee kept fugitives in his fruit cellar before he secured their transportation further into Bethel. He chose... 

    1 Moores Ln.
    Felicity, OH 45120
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  • Chilo: Living and Working on the Ohio River Museum

    The Chilo Lock 34 River Museum occupies the former operations building at the Ohio River Lock and Dam #34. Although the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decommissioned the facility in 1964, Clermont County Park District was able renovate the building in 2005 as an interpretive visitor center and museum. With the theme of “Living and Working with the Ohio River”,... 

    521 County Park Rd.
    Chilo, OH 45112
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  • Felicity Cemetery

    The Felicity Cemetery is the burial site of Arthur Fee (1791 – 1879) and Oliver Perry Spencer Fee (1823 – 1873), noted abolitionist and key member of the Underground Railroad. Cemetery is open to the public. 

    Light St.
    Felicity, OH 45120
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  • FELICITY WESLEYAN CHURCH

    The Felicity Wesleyan Church was formed in 1847, when forty members of the Methodist Church left over the slavery issue. Among its members were conductors of the Underground Railroad including Dr. Mathew Gibson, Nelson Gibson, and Joseph Parrish. Rev. Silas Chase, MD, was a Wesleyan Church organizer and pastor of the Sugar Tree Wesleyan Church, Bethel Wesleyan Church and the... 

    420 Main St
    Felicity, OH 45120
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  • O.P.S. Fee Store

    Oliver Perry Spencer Fee (1823-1873) was the grandson of Felicity's founder, William Fee. He attended the Democratic National Convention in 1860. Fee loudly proclaimed pro-slavery sentiments in order to gain the trust of the slave owners, when he was, in fact, the Felicity stationmaster. When slave-hunters came to Oliver Perry Spencer Fee for help, he directed them in... 

    208 Main St.
    Felicity, OH 45120
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  • Will Sleet Home Site

    The parcel of land was once the home site of Will Sleet, a prominent member of the Felicity Underground Railroad network. Sleet, a blacksmith by occupation, was a free Kentucky-born African American. He assisted a number of fugitive slaves on their way north and is specifically mentioned by Peter Stokes in his escape narrative in the Wilbur Siebert... 

    411 Harrison Ave.
    Felicity, OH 45120
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