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Waves crashed at the shore near Bald Rock at Fortune's Rocks in Biddeford. Fortune's Rocks was a beach neighborhood named for early settler Francis Fortune (1763-1858), a sailor who wrecked in Biddeford Pool during a winter storm and ended up staying.
Fortune met and married a local widow, Peggy Rossiter, and they lived on an oceanfront farm until their deaths.
This negative was one which photographer Robert Gay likely turned into a postcard, for which he did a brisk business at the outset of the 20th century.
About This Item
- Title: Waves at Fortune's Rocks, Biddeford, ca. 1915
- Creator: Robert H. Gay
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Fortune's Rocks, Biddeford, York County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 18 cm
- Local Code: 1976
- Collection: Robert H. Gay Collection
- Object Type: Image
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