Marvin Gardens, the leading yellow property on the board shown, is actually a misspelling of the original location name, Marven Gardens

Marven Gardens

Marven Gardens is a housing area in Margate City, New Jersey, in the United States, located two miles south of Atlantic City. It is famous as a Yellow property on the original Atlantic City version of the Monopoly game board, although the game misspelled the name as Marvin Gardens...

. The misspelling was said to be introduced by Charles Todd and passed on when his home-made Monopoly board was copied by Charles Darrow and thence to Parker Brothers. The Todd board is on display in the Forbes

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 Gallery in New York City. It was not until 1995 that Parker Brothers acknowledged this mistake and formally apologized to the residents of Marven Gardens for the misspelling.