Mystery of a town wiped off the map by Google: How the fake Agloe, New York, conceived as a 'copyright trap' by cartographers turned into a real hamlet before vanishing forever

A small patch of land between the towns of Rockland and Beaver Kill in Sullivan County was nothing more than a dirt-road intersection before mapmakers Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers made up Agloe in 1925. …read more

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