Nitgedaiget:
A Vanished Utopia
Did you know that Beacon was once home to a vacation resort for Jewish progressive liberals and Communist sympathizers? Camp Nitgedaiget, (Nish-guh-die-get,) meaning “no worries” in Yiddish, was later called Camp Beacon. It operated from 1922 until the early 1950s and was located in the hamlet of Dutchess Junction, approximately two miles south of the city of Beacon on Route 9D. Click the link below to read the full article,
The reprint of this article is a courtesy of the Dutchess County Historical Society (from DCHS 2015 Yearbook Volume 94.) To learn more about the Society, visit www.dchsny.org.