What is 43 North Road in Smoke Rise?

43 North Road is a 2,618 sq ft commercial building at the North Gate of Smoke Rise, a private gated community in Kinnelon, NJ. The Board of Governors purchased the property, and the community is now surveying residents about its future use, including options like a Heritage Center, commercial lease, clubhouse, or mixed use.

What is the Village Inn deficit at Smoke Rise?

The Village Inn at Smoke Rise operates at a yearly deficit of $406,304 as of the 2026 proposed budget. The Inn generates $1.43M in revenue but costs $1.83M to operate. The deficit has grown 64% since 2019, from $247K to $406K. Every household pays approximately $34/month to cover this gap.

How much does 43 North Road cost Smoke Rise residents?

43 North Road costs approximately $181,280 per year including mortgage ($56,820) and capital replacement items ($125,000). Combined with the Village Inn deficit of $406,304, the total yearly cost to the community is $587,584 — approximately $50 per month from each of the 980 households.

What is Smoke Rise in Kinnelon NJ?

Smoke Rise is a private gated community of over 900 homes in Kinnelon, New Jersey, established in 1946. It features a lake, beach, Village Inn restaurant, 24/7 security, St. Hubert's Chapel with 1886–1889 Tiffany windows, and four distinct neighborhoods: North Gate, East Gate, Mountain & Hilltop, and Lakeside & Perimeter.

The Stickle Family | 43 North Rd

The Stickles were among the valley's old settler families, descended from a German immigrant who reached these hills shortly before the Revolution. Their name endured longest on the water: Stickle Pond is the old name for Lake Kinnelon.

Pre-Revolution–1800s

Local history

The name on the water

Local history traces the Stickles to an early German settler — by one account Hubbard Stickle's forebear — who emigrated and reached the valley a few years before the Revolution. They farmed the highlands among the old families, and their name endured longest on the lake: Stickle Pond was the old name for the water now called Lake Kinnelon, the body of water that would later sit at the heart of the Kinney estate.

Local history

A once-published claim that Hubbard Stickle sold this land to Francis Kinney was publicly retracted for lack of any record, and is not asserted here. The family's pre-Revolution German origins come down through local history rather than a surviving deed.

The family record

1600s–1700s — land grantsLocal history

The Stickle family

farmer
landholder

A grant family whose name the lake long carried — Stickle Pond, today's Lake Kinnelon.

The Stickles took up Proprietor grants alongside the Meads and Cobbs. Their name endured longest on the water: Stickle Pond was the old name for the lake now called Lake Kinnelon, the body of water at the heart of the later Kinney estate.

Homestead & site

Stickle Pond — today's Lake Kinnelon

Regional — area only

The lake carried the family name; the homestead site itself is undocumented.

Connections

Smoke Rise — Stickle Pond — the family's namesake water — became Lake Kinnelon at the center of the Smoke Rise estate.

Sources

F.W. Beers, Atlas of Morris County, 1868 — Pequannock plate
Lucy Meyer, Kinnelon: A History (1976)

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This history grows with you

The Stickle name is on the map; the family's documented story is thin. If you carry the name — or hold records of the German-settler origins, deeds, or a correction — share it. Family stories publish as local history; dated records publish as documented. Nothing publishes without review.

Records of the family's German-settler origins
Deeds or land records (including the retracted Kinney claim)
Family lineage and descendants

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Sources

F.W. Beers, Atlas of Morris County, 1868 — Pequannock plate
Lucy Meyer, Kinnelon: A History (1976)
Cornie Hubner, “Didja Know? Kinnelon History” (smokerise-nj.blogspot.com)
Borough of Kinnelon — local history (historian “Meyer”)

Compiled from publicly available sources; where accounts differ, the most widely documented version is used. Community corrections welcome.

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