Women of Kinnelon

The Women of Smoke Rise

1960s

Founders & Heritage

Honoring the un-bylined labor by women that built the community.

The Morris Kinney Memorial Library (the Smoke Rise Library), established in the early 1960s, was — per the community record — operated for a number of years by the Women of Smoke Rise, until it closed around 1970–71. A collective contribution: women who ran a community institution whose individual names the record largely did not keep.

Sources & confidence

Confidence: Local history. Every published entry clears our documented-or-omit standard.

  • The Smoke Rise & Kinnelon Blog, "The Smoke Rise Library" (2011)

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