Two cartographers might independently draw the same real town; they cannot independently invent the same fake one. That is the entire logic of the paper town, and in the 1920s Otto G. Lindberg and his assistant Ernest Alpers planted one on an Esso map of upstate New York, naming it Agloe from their own initials shuffled. Then Agloe Lodge Farms opened on the spot in 1930, and the trap quietly became a place.