Havelock is a city in Craven County, and is home to the largest Marine Corps air station in the world, Cherry Point.
The city is named after Sir Henry Havelock, a British Officer in India, and was called "Havelock Station" in the late 1850's when the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad built a depot where its right-of-way crossed what is now Miller Boulevard in Havelock. Havelock is one of eight cities in the world named after Sir Havelock. The town was the initial landing point for an American Civil War battle known as the Battle of New Bern.