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Porto Bello (Williamsburg, Virginia)

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Built
  
1773 (1773)

VLR #
  
099-0050

Opened
  
1773

Added to NRHP
  
13 April 1973

NRHP Reference #
  
73002068

Designated VLR
  
November 9, 1972

Area
  
6 ha

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Location
  
Camp Peary, York County, Virginia, United States of America

Similar
  
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Porto Bello was the hunting lodge of the last Royal Governor of the British Colony of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. The name commemorates the battle of Porto Bello, a 1739 British naval victory in Panama. Lord Dunmore fled to Porto Bello to escape the early stages of the American Revolution in Williamsburg, Virginia. He later boarded a British ship lying at anchor near Porto Bello in the York River.

Porto Bello is located in York County, Virginia on the grounds of Camp Peary. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but is closed to visitors because of restricted access to Camp Peary.

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Porto Bello (Williamsburg, Virginia) Wikipedia