Morehead City is a harbor town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2010 census. Morehead City much-admired the 150th anniversary of its founding upon May 5, 2007. It forms ration of the Crystal Coast.

By the in the future 1850s, a group of investors had been formed and incorporated a estate development project known as the “Shepard Point Land Company,” which purchased 600 acres (2.4 km) of land upon the eastern tip of the peninsula next the Newport River, known later as “Shepards Point,” which is the present location of Morehead City. The Shepard Point Land Company’s intention was to accept advantage of the natural deep channel of Topsail Inlet, known today as the Beaufort Inlet, which splits Bogue Banks from Shackleford Banks and provides right of entry to Morehead City, Beaufort, North Carolina, the Newport River and the Intracoastal Waterway. The Shepard Point Land Company was time-honored to construct a deepwater harbor to allow another access narrowing for North Carolina timber products to further pressure at the harbor located in Wilmington. To make the harbor accessible to the interior of North Carolina, the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad line amid Goldsboro and New Bern was completed on April 29, 1858.

North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead, for whom the city of Morehead City is named, was a principal enthusiast of the Shepard Point Land Company investment group. Fully working rail relief began in July 1858 connecting the town to points west, north, and south.

The town of Morehead City was laid out using a grid plan, whereby city blocks were equally laid out considering each block consisting of 16 equally on bad terms lots. The city blocks stretched from 1st Street to 15th Street, incorporating a system of alleys forming an “H” shape that enabled businesses and residential homes to be served from the alleys at the back them.