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'''Torras''' is the name of a former town in the extreme northeastern corner of [[Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana]], United States.<ref>((cite gnis|543728|Torras, Louisiana))</ref> The town was located along either side of the Texas & Pacific Railroad at its juncture with Lower [[Old River (Louisiana)|Old River]]. The [[Mississippi River]] is located just to the east and the juncture of the [[Red River of the South|Red]] and [[Atchafalaya River]]s just to the west.

The community was founded in 1902 and named after pioneer area planter Joseph Torras. Joseph Torras was born in [[Barcelona, Spain]] in 1820 and was the great-uncle of Fernando Joseph Torras who was famous for building bridges around the world, most notably the [[F.J. Torras Causeway]] in Brunswick, GA.  He immigrated to the United States as a young man. Before settling in Pointe Coupee in 1845, he had lived in [[Natchez, Mississippi]] and [[Van Buren, Arkansas]]. He and his brother purchased the [[White Hall Plantation House|plantation of Bennet Barton Simmes]] and opened the firm of M & J Torras.

The town of Torras was expected to develop into an important shipping and rail center, due to its excellent location. Disaster struck, however, on May 1, 1912, when the levee in front of the town gave way during the great Mississippi River flood of that year. The community was virtually destroyed as the flood waters poured south through Pointe Coupee Parish as well as into [[West Baton Rouge Parish|West Baton Rouge]], [[Iberville Parish|Iberville]] and [[Assumption Parish]]es. Some 17,000 residents of Pointe Coupee were forced from their homes and at least 28 persons drowned, principally in the [[Lettsworth, Louisiana|Lettsworth]], [[Batchelor, Louisiana|Batchelor]] and Erwinwille communities to the south of Torras.

The community of Torras was moderately rebuilt and withstood the high water of the [[Great Mississippi Flood of 1927|Great Flood of 1927]], when a levee break occurred nearby at the [[McCrea, Louisiana|McCrea]] community on the east bank of the Atchafalaya River. With the relocation of the railroad in later years, however, the community of Torras ceased to exist and there are no buildings left to mark its former location.<ref>Lockhart, John M. "Roadmap to the Westside", ''[http://www.riversidereader.com The Riverside Reader]'', January 21, 2008, p. 10</ref>

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