Moffitt Beach Campground is named after one of the first settlers to establish themselves in the Sacandaga Lake area, around 1840. Josiah Moffitt was a stonemason and wood mill operator who owned the property upon which the campground now sits. Moffitt and other residents mined the sand, Moffitt doing so for his masonry business; the locals used their sand to create beaches around Sacandaga Lake, many of which are still in use today.