On Queens Creek, in Camp Peary Military Reservation, Williamsburg, Virginia. County/parish: York.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 13, 1973. NRIS 73002068.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site.
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 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, but is closed to visitors because of the restricted access to Camp Peary.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684255