Tag: Havelock

Havelock is a city in Craven County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 22,442 at the 2000 census, and estimated to be 21,906 in 2006. The city is home to Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, the world’s largest Marine Corps Air station, and home to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. Havelock is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Havelock is one of eight cities in the world named after Sir Henry Havelock, a British Officer in India, who distinguished himself in 1857 during what was known as The Indian Mutiny. Originally named “Havelock Station” in the late 1850s when the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad built a depot where its right-of-way crossed what is now Miller Boulevard in Havelock. The town was the initial landing point for an American Civil War battle known as the Battle of New Bern. On March 11, Brigadier General Ambrose Burnside’s command embarked from Roanoke Island to rendezvous with Union gunboats at Hatteras Inlet for an…