St. Michael’s Protestant Episcopal Church, built in 1751, towers above other historic buildings along Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston was founded in 1670 by English colonists and prospered as the seaport serving the area's planters. The Civil War quashed the plantation economy, but by the 1920s, the city had revived enough to inspire the dance craze named after it.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Charleston," March 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
