Porto Bello

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name = Porto Bello
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caption =Porto Bello, "photograph taken approximately 1900"
location= Camp Peary, York County, Virginia, United States of America
lat_degrees = 37 | lat_minutes = 18 | lat_seconds = 8.6112 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 76 | long_minutes = 37 | long_seconds = 41.2680 | long_direction = W
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architect=unknown
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added = April 13, 1973
governing_body = United States Government
refnum=73002068 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2006-03-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Porto Bello was the hunting lodge of the last Royal Governor of the British Colony of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. 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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