{"id":3616,"slug":"felicity-wesleyan-church-felicity-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Felicity Wesleyan is the schism — the '1847' that's the forty walked out, the 'slavery issue' that's the split the Methodists. The 'conductors' is the roster — the 'Gibsons and Parrish' that's the members, the 'Silas Chase' that's the pastor-conductor. The 'hill town' is the location — the 'no floods' that's the unlike Moscow, the 'turnpike' that's the free and busy.","The 'William Sleet' is the blacksmith — the 'Black abolitionist' that's the marker honors, the 'prominent' that's the operation's key. The 'stations' is the plural — the 'cemetery, Powell, Fee' that's the mapped ring, the 'Oliver Perry Spencer Fee' that's the store. Felicity is the exaggerated-yet-real — the 'thesis' that's the sorts myth from truth, the 'persistent and aggressive' that's the verified.","The file keeps Felicity: the forty walkouts, Sleet's forge, the ring of stations, and the Wesleyan split.","Felicity Wesleyan is the archive's Ohio file — the church that left."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Felicity Wesleyan is the archive's Ohio file — the congregation conductor.","A church keeps its walkout — the file's suggestion being that Felicity's hold is the schismatic: the 'forty members' that's the chose freedom over fellowship, the 'Sleet' that's the Black smith in the network, and the 'marker' that's the names the ring."]}],"name":"Felicity Wesleyan Church","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","RELIGIOUS","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The Wesleyan church—where the anti-slavery Methodists met.","full_desc":"Felicity Wesleyan Church is a historic site in Felicity, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom. The Wesleyan church—where the anti-slavery Methodists met. It sits in the archive under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Felicity","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":38.838763,"lon":-84.098458,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Felicity Wesleyan Church's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Felicity Wesleyan Church is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic site; verify hours and access with the managing agency before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}