Mo Ranch

Mo Ranch is a Presbyterian conference center for summer camps, retreats, family reunions that is located in unincorporated Kerr County, Texas. It is in a west-central area in the county, 10 miles (16 km) west of Hunt, Texas,[1] in the Hill Country at the North Fork of the Guadalupe River.

View from the Chapel on the Hill at Mo Ranch.

History

The Ranch is named for Daniel J. Moran, who was chairman of Continental Oil Company (later to become Conoco, Inc.). He owned the 6,871-acre (27.81 km2) ranch from 1935 until his death in 1948; Presbyterians purchased the ranch in 1949, the year after his death,[1] for $562,500; Mrs. Moran then gave a gift back to the church of $50,000. Eventually the State of Texas bought 6,500 acres (26 km2) of the ranch from the Presbyterians, and later expanded that portion with additional purchase of adjacent land. That land is now the Kerr County Wildlife Management Area, administered by Texas Parks & Wildlife. Now the entire Mo-Ranch covers 500 acres (2.0 km2).

By 2019 the Mo Ranch camp organization began doing off-site camping programs in the Rio Grande Valley region; historically many residents there chose not to travel to Kerr County for the camp as some members of families lacked immigration visas and therefore could be detained at in-country immigration checkpoints set up in the region.[2]

References
  1. "Mo-Ranch". Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  2. Tritenbach, David (2019-06-06). "The story of a Mo-Ranch miracle". Kerrville Daily Times.
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