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Founded in 1670 by English colonists, Charleston found fame and fortune as the seaport serving the South Carolina Low Country’s planters. The Civil War, ignited at nearby Fort Sumter, quashed the plantation economy, but by the 1920s, the city had revived enough to inspire the dance craze named after it. Today Charleston remains redolent of magnolias and mint juleps and afternoons on the veranda—though many visitors prefer to spend their days here strolling past row after row of impeccably maintained antebellum mansions.
Photo: The steeple of Saint Michael’s Protestant Episcopal Church, built in 1751, towers above historic buildings along Broad Street. Photograph © Jan Butchofsky-Houser/Corbis.
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