Describing Agloe as a mere hamlet is particularly apt. When it was first acknowledged, on a free road map distributed by Standard Oil Company of New York, or Socony, gas stations in 1925, its ...

Agloe, N.Y., is not a town in any real sense. Instead, it's among a number of fakes that mapmakers planted to foil plagiarists. It inspired John Green to write his book (and now movie) Paper Towns.

John Green used Agloe as the setting of Paper Towns, an acclaimed mystery novel in 2005. Devotees have even made pilgrimages to find the town that never was, recording their somewhat pointless ...

There are fake towns, there are real towns, and then there is Agloe in upstate New York. The town was invented as a cartographical ruse in the 1930s, but it somehow ended up becoming real. Agloe ...

Inventing Agloe. That's what Otto G. Lindberg, director of the General Drafting Co., and his assistant, Ernest Alpers, did in the 1930s.They were making a road map of New York state, and on that ...

When Agloe later appeared on a Rand McNally map of New York, Esso charged Rand McNally with copying their maps. However, it turned out that Rand McNally had received the name and location of the ...

So in case you were wondering, yes, paper towns are real, and in fact, Agloe, the town mentioned in the film, is real as well. Here's more about Agloe and other famous "paper towns." ...

The town in question is "Agloe", which was made somewhat famous by the young adult novel "Paper Towns" by John Green. This small town never existed, but could be found featured in New York near ...

First it was simply a beloved book by John Green, and now Paper Towns has become a movie, with a release date of Jul. 24. The title shared by both versions has multiple meanings, Green told fans ...