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Agloe | |
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A General Drafting map location | |
Fictional Agloe, New York, a copyright trap, shown on a real map of New York published by Exxon in 1998. | |
First appearance | 1925 |
Created by | Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers |
Genre | Map |
In-universe information | |
Type | Copyright trap |
Locations | Agloe General Store (formerly) |
State | New York |
County | Delaware County, New York |
Town | Colchester, New York |
Agloe was originally a fictional hamlet in Colchester, Delaware County, New York, United States, that became an actual landmark after mapmakers made up the community as a phantom settlement, an example of a fictitious entry similar to a trap street, added to the map to catch plagiarism.
Agloe is also known for its role in the American romantic mystery novel Paper Towns by John Green and its film adaptation, as well as The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd.
In the 1920s, General Drafting founder Otto G. Lindberg and an assistant, Ernest Alpers, assigned an anagram of their initials to a dirt-road intersection in the Catskill Mountains: NY 206 and Morton Hill Road, north of Roscoe, New York. [1] The town was designed as a "copyright trap" to enable the publishers to detect others copying their maps. Agloe appeared on maps made by General Drafting for Esso.
In 1930, a business named Agloe Lodge Farms was incorporated, [2] which acquired a fishing lodge in the area and renamed it Agloe Lodge. [3] Members of the Nead family, which sold the land to Agloe Lodge Farms, told the Times Herald-Record in 2016 that the land had been sold for $1, and that they suspected the company was actually a front for Rand McNally. [4]
According to cartographer Frank Brown, the town later appeared on a map produced by Rand McNally. When General Drafting approached Rand McNally about the violation of their copyright, Rand McNally representatives said that the information about the town had come from Delaware County records,[ citation needed ] which showed that a business with the name Agloe existed there. When recounting this story to the Road Map Collectors' Association in 2002, Brown said that the business was a general store. [5] Longtime residents of the area have said that there was never a general store at the site although there was a fishing lodge renamed Agloe Lodge. [4]
Agloe itself continued to appear on maps as recently as the 1990s, but has now been deleted. It briefly appeared on Google Maps. [6] The United States Geological Survey added "Agloe (Not Official)" to the Geographic Names Information System database on February 25, 2014. [7]
Agloe is featured in the 2008 novel Paper Towns by John Green and its 2015 film adaptation. During the film and in the novel, one of the main characters, Margo, runs away from home, leaving personal clues to her friend and neighbor Quentin of where she has gone. He then discovers she is hiding in one of the US's most famous "paper towns": Agloe, New York. The book's name is based on the various ways that Quentin interprets the phrase "paper towns".
Agloe is also featured prominently in the 2022 novel The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd.
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