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    Agloe was a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the 1930s as a "paper town" or copyright trap on their maps. In the 1940s, other map companies began including Agloe, believing it was real, which prompted Esso to consider lawsuits for copyright infringement. However, an unknown resident had actually built a general store at the location marked as Agloe. Over the next 40 years, Agloe grew to include a gas station and two houses, appearing on maps until 2014. Though the buildings are now abandoned, Agloe served its original purpose of protecting mapmakers' copyrights and became part of popular culture through its inclusion in the novel Paper Towns.

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    Agloe was a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the 1930s as a "paper town" or copyright trap on their maps. In the 1940s, other map companies began including Agloe, believing it was real, which prompted Esso to consider lawsuits for copyright infringement. However, an unknown resident had actually built a general store at the location marked as Agloe. Over the next 40 years, Agloe grew to include a gas station and two houses, appearing on maps until 2014. Though the buildings are now abandoned, Agloe served its original purpose of protecting mapmakers' copyrights and became part of popular culture through its inclusion in the novel Paper Towns.

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    Agloe: Alexandra Viergová

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    Agloe was a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the 1930s as a "paper town" or copyright trap on their maps. In the 1940s, other map companies began including Agloe, believing it was real, which prompted Esso to consider lawsuits for copyright infringement. However, an unknown resident had actually built a general store at the location marked as Agloe. Over the next 40 years, Agloe grew to include a gas station and two houses, appearing on maps until 2014. Though the buildings are now abandoned, Agloe served its original purpose of protecting mapmakers' copyrights and became part of popular culture through its inclusion in the novel Paper Towns.

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    Agloe

    Alexandra Viergov

    Agloe
    Agloe, New York is a fictitious village created by the
    Esso company in the early 1930's and inserted into
    tourist maps as a copyright trap, or paper town.

    In the 1940's, Agloe began appearing on maps created


    by other companies. Esso suspected copyright
    infringement and prepared several lawsuits, but in fact,
    an unknown resident had built "The Agloe General
    Store" at an intersection that appeared on the Esso
    map.

    Agloe creted two men. Otto G. Lindberg and an


    assistant, Ernest Alpers.
    The name was a mix of the first letters in their names.
    There was no town on that stretch between Rockland
    and nearby Beaverkill just a dirt road. This wasn't an
    important or often visited place, which made it a perfect
    spot for what's called a "paper town.
    Over the next forty years, the fictional town of Agloe
    grew. Agloe had a gas station, the general store, and
    two houses.

    It also appeared in Google Maps until March 2014,


    nearly 90 years after it was created by cartographers

    The building, is the only structure in Agloe, which


    continues to appear on many maps and is traditionally
    recorded as having a population of zero.
    Agloe is featured as an important part of the plot in the
    novel Paper Towns by John Green.
    And today?Agloe is sadly gone. The buildings are
    abandoned if not destroyed, and the mapmakers of the
    world no longer recognize its existence.

    Co Rd 7
    Colchester, NY

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    your
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