 November 18, 1958, Charlevoix City Hall served as a makeshift morgue for the bodies of crewmen of the SS "Carl D. Bradley" after the lake freighter foundered in Lake Michigan during a severe storm.The USCGC "Sundew", stationed at Charlevoix, was one of the first vessels to arrive at the search area and played a pivotal role in that night's rescue of the two surviving crewmen.Charlevoix was home to Michigan's first nuclear power plant, Big Rock Point, which operated from 1962 to 1997.