Generations of the same family have operated the summer camp since 1939. It counts family members of former president and governors as alumnae.

Camp Mystic, on the banks of the Guadalupe River near Hunt, Texas, has been operated by generations of the same family since the 1930s.

Camp Mystic, the Christian summer camp for girls on the Guadalupe river where at least 20 children were missing in catastrophic flooding Friday, is nearly a century old. Its facilities include a recreation hall that was constructed in the 1920s from local cypress trees.