Camp Mystic has deep roots with Texas politicians, including former first lady Laura Bush, who worked as a counselor there, and former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who sent his daughters there.

Next year, if it resumes operations, Camp Mystic will turn 100 years old. But should it celebrate that centennial milestone, it will woefully also commemorate the one-year anniversary of an awful weekend when so many jubilant young campers were lost.

About 700 children were at Camp Mystic when flash floods hit on Friday. Here's what we know about the storied summer camp for girls.

An Ingram, Texas carpenter has built a massive cross to be cemented outside Camp Mystic to honor those that lost their lives in the deadly flash floods that swept through central Texas during July 4th weekend.

For close to 100 years, the eight-year-old's family members spent their summers at camps along the region's glittering hills and riverbanks, including the private all-girls Christian summer camp tucked along a bend in the Guadalupe River. Blakely was one of 27 Camp Mystic campers who lost their lives after floods devastated Kerr County July 4.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said his state "will not stop until every missing person is found" following devastating flooding in central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend that left at least 105 dead. Five young girls and a counselor from Camp Mystic in Hunt remain missing Tuesday.

Robert Earl Keen, a Texas music legend who has a ranch in Kerrville and whose daughters attended Camp Mystic, talks about the impact of July 4 floods.

This is camp, and camp is heaven on earth, home away from home, a retreat from the rest of their lives for two or four weeks at a time.