Reddit reviews Wicked Charlotte: The Sordid Side of the Queen City

/u/crwm, Based on this I am going to say that I highly doubt the brothel story. After all, the business of brothels centers around a town with commerce, which wouldn't really have happened for us until the gold discovery in 1799, but the town came years before in 1768. I am sure there may well have been brothels, but I don't think that you could get a whole bunch of people, especially with religious proclivities in that time, to name their hometown after something scandalous. You might check out this book for some down and dirty tales about our town.