In the 1940’s a hurricane wiped out all of the homes and farms in the Eastern Annex. At one point it was known as the Hollywood of the south when Plumbob Pictures opened a studio there. During the Prohibition and Great Depression, the town did see a brief revival as it became a resort town known for its speakeasies and casinos.
However, the town suffered economic hardship for a number decades when the railroad by-passed the town. After the war, thousands of refugees from the war-torn South traveled through the port of Twin Bayous aboard steamboats bound for Galveston, Texas.
Way down upon the Simwahanee and Apasimmacola bayous in the state of Louisimana sits the sleepy southern town of Twin Bayous looking out over the Gulf of Simexico.įounded in 1832 by Henri Dutranoit of New Orleans, Twin Bayous served as an important hub for cotton exports out of the south in the ante-bellum days and was occupied early on by Union forces during the Civil War.
