NRHP Reference # 72001486 Area 3.345 km² | Opened 1742 Added to NRHP 26 April 1972 | |
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Location MD 244 E of Drayden, Drayden, Maryland | ||
Porto Bello, is a historic home located at Drayden, St. Mary's County, Maryland. It is a 1 1⁄2-story gambrel-roofed Flemish bond brick house built after 1742. It is located on a portion of the first grant of land recorded in the province of Maryland: West St. Mary's Manor, one of the nine original Maryland Manors. Its name commemorates the Battle of Porto Bello.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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