Here's the history behind Charlotte Town, FWIW
Nicknamed the "Queen City",[14] like its county a few years earlier, Charlotte was named in honor of German princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who had become the Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland in 1761, seven years before the town's incorporation. A second nickname derives from the American Revolutionary War, when British commander General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis occupied the city but was driven out by hostile residents. He wrote that Charlotte was "a hornet's nest of rebellion", leading to the nickname "The Hornet's Nest".[15]
Within decades of Polk's settling, the area grew to become "Charlotte Town", incorporating in 1768.[16] The crossroads in the Piedmont became the heart of Uptown Charlotte. In 1770, surveyors marked the streets in a grid pattern for future development. The east–west trading path became Trade Street, and the Great Wagon Road became Tryon Street, in honor of William Tryon, a royal governor of colonial North Carolina.[17] The intersection of Trade and Tryon—commonly known today as "Trade & Tryon", or simply "The Square"[13]—is more properly called "Independence Square".[18]