Havelock, New Brunswick
Havelock
Location of Havelock in New Brunswick
46°00′00″N 65°19′01″W / 46.000°N 65.317°W
Havelock, New Brunswick is a Canadian rural community in Kings County, New Brunswick. Havelock is at the junction of Route 885 and Route 880. There is a small public airport nearby.
The community is situated on a large lime deposit and its extraction has driven the local economy, beginning with a Lafarge cement plant constructed in the 1960s and current mothballed since the early 1990s. Graymont operates a lime quarry and kiln to supply eastern Canada and New England with 300 tonnes per day.
History
[edit]Havelock was named after Sir Henry Havelock and was previously known as Butternut Ridge.
Notable people
[edit]- Lily May Perry, botanist
- George McCready Price, creationist
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