Fortunes Rocks is seaside community in

Biddeford Biddeford is a city in York County, Maine, United States. It is the principal commercial center of York County. Its population was 22,552 at the 2020 census. The twin cities of Saco and Biddeford include the resort communities of Biddeford Poo ...

York County, Maine York County is the southwesternmost county in the U.S. state of Maine, along the state of New Hampshire's eastern border. It is divided from Strafford County, New Hampshire, by the Salmon Falls River, and the connected tidal estuary—the Pi ...

, located approximately north of

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. The 1999 novel '' Fortune's Rocks'' by

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is loosely based on this Maine seaside neighborhood.

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* {{authority control Neighborhoods in Maine Portland metropolitan area, Maine Biddeford, Maine