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Felicity is a village in Franklin Township in southeastern Clermont County, concentrated around the intersection of State Routes 133 and 222 a few miles north of the Ohio River and about 40 miles east of Cincinnati.

Felicity was laid out in 1817 and was originally called Feestown in honor of its founder, William Fee; the name was changed to Felicity at the request of Fee's daughter, and the post office followed suit in 1829.

The village's land traces back to a 600-acre survey made on December 25, 1787, for Revolutionary War soldiers Captain Morgan Bryan and Major Nicholas Carter, and William Fee had assembled some 600 acres of it by 1818.

Felicity was an important stop on the Underground Railroad in Clermont County — local abolitionists including members of the Fee family, Dr. Gipson and William Sleet served as conductors, about a third of the village's population was African-American in that era, and the village today has six sites listed on the National Park Service's Network to Freedom.

The 2020 census counted 651 residents in Felicity, down from 818 in 2010, when the village had 335 households; its population peaked at 1,047 back in 1880.

Felicity packs its population into just 0.27 square miles, giving it a density of roughly 2,468 people per square mile in 2020 — unusually dense for a rural Ohio village.

Felicity is the birthplace of Guy T. Helvering, who went on to serve as a U.S. representative, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and a federal judge.

The village is served by the Felicity-Franklin Local School District, whose elementary, middle and high schools share a combined campus in the village.

Felicity has a branch of the Clermont County Public Library, continuing a reading tradition that began when the Felicity Library and Reading Room Association was organized in 1879.