Agloe, New York

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Agloe, New York is an example of a copyright trap that became an actual landmark. In the 1930s, General Drafting Company founder Otto G. Lindberg and an assistant, Ernest Alpers, assigned a scramble of their initials to a dirt-road intersection in the Catskill Mountains north of Roscoe, New York. The "town" then began to appear on Esso maps.

Later, Agloe appeared on a Rand McNally map, but it turned out that they had gotten the name from the county administration. Someone had built a general store at the intersection on the map and had given the name Agloe to it because the name was on the Esso maps.

[edit] See also

• Fictitious entry
• Trap street

[edit] References

• Errors on Road Maps by Ian Byrne
• Copyright Traps - New Scientist, 25 November 2006.