Havelock is a city in Craven County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 20,735 at the 2010 census. The city is home to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the world’s largest Marine Corps freshen station, and house to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.

Havelock is ration of the New Bern Metropolitan 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. The Place was 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.

The town was the initial landing reduction for a Civil War fight known as the Battle of New Bern. On March 11, 1862, Brigadier General Ambrose Burnside’s command embarked from Roanoke Island to rendezvous later Union gunboats at Hatteras Inlet for an expedition against New Bern. On March 13, the fleet sailed in the works the Neuse River, anchored at Slocum Creek, and disembarked infantry on the river’s south bank. Elements of the Rhode Island Heavy Artillery came ashore near the present-day location of the Officers’ Club on Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station and also near the Carolina Pines Golf and Country Club. After the take possession of of New Bern, the Federals transited Havelock upon their pretension to the Battle of Fort Macon. Despite several Confederate attempts to reclaim New Bern and the surrounding area, the Federals did not go without until after the terminate of the war. During one of the attempts, however, the Union-built blockhouse fort upon Havelock’s Slocom Creek was burned in 1864. A diorama model of the Civil War fort is upon exhibit at the Havelock Tourist & Events Center along with new displays of Havelock and Cherry Point history.