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Map of Arkham

Thanks, Miss Scarlet, for posting your map, but I figured I'd post the one I had and mark it with the locations you're visiting for the game as per Arkham Unveiled. The map is a PDF and is about 4-5MB large.

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News item from the Arkham Gazette

Student Missing On Camping Trip
Richard Cardigan, a Junior at Miskatonic University, remains
missing today, apparently the victim of a camping accident.

Fellow camper Henry Atwater was discovered early Sunday
morning wandering the streets of west Arkham, suffering from
amnesia, and is currently hospitalized.

The young men left Arkham Thursday, to return on Saturday.

Police located the campsite beside the river a half mile
northwest of Cabot Road Sunday, but found no trace of Richard
Cardigan. A search for the missing student was abandoned till
Monday when a violent thunderstorm erupted. Police and volunteers
plan to search again today.

More volunteers are welcome and are requested to meet after
day-break at the Cabot Road dead-end. Cabot road runs north off
the Aylesbury Pike about three miles northwest of Arkham.

Atwater's Condition
Though physically well, Atwater suffers from amnesia and
has been entered in Arkham State Sanitarium. Doctors foresee a
full recovery.

Police hope he can soon add details to their knowledge, and
help locate the missing Cardigan. They speculate that the youths
may have been struck by lightning Friday evening, and fear that
Cardigan may have been seriously injured.

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Bishop's Bridge Burns
The covered bridge that once crossed the
Miskatonic four miles upriver is no more. In the last
week's thunderstorms, the aging structure was struck
by lightning which burned the roof and most of the
decking and timbers.

Thought to have been built around 1750, only the
central stone support and the approaches now exist. The
Sheriff has closed the road.

Originally Bowen's Bridge, after the prosperous
farmer who built it, folks later began calling it Bishop's
Bridge.

Locals say that the bridge has attracted lightning
strikes. The structure had lately grown so decrepit that
the County closed it to horses and wagons.
There is visible from the south side of the river a
symbol decorating the stone of the still-standing central
support, of unknown meaning and origin.

Little needed these days, the bridge probably will not
be rebuilt.

EMINENT ARKHAMITES
A Continuing Series by E.
Lapham Peabody

Sermon Bishop, Wizard
In the mid-18th century, Sermon Bishop was rumored
a witch and thought to be responsible for misfortunes
suffered by farmers west of Arkham. Other, darker words
were whispered of him, but never aloud.

Elihu Phillips, a neighbor, frequently argued with
Bishop. When Phillips' daughter was born with a twisted
leg, the farmers were sure Bishop was responsible. One
night, as Bishop returned from a visit to Dunwich, Phillips
and six other men captured him and bound him, and hung
with a magical sigil round his head.

Bishop, they said, had used a terrible book to treat
with a great demon, dealings that left the wizard's body
bent and crippled. In compensation, Bishop could not die.
Rendered helpless by the sigil, the seven carried
Bishop north to the Miskatonic, and there cemented him
into the hollow of a stone bridge support while the bridge
was under construction. They marked the stone support
with the same sign which bound Bishop, hoping thereby
to imprison the wizard forever.

Although the wizard's seven enemies were among
those the sheriff questioned, no one was ever charged.
The wooden roof and walls of the bridge fell into
disrepair in the later 19th century. In 1901 a powerful
lightning bolt struck and burned both spans, and the
bridge was never rebuilt. Only the foundations and the
central support remain, a few miles west of town. The
sign, as folks indicate, is chiselled into the stone of the
central support, and can be seen today, keeping us all
safe from this wizard!

My particular thanks to Mrs. Nina Williams Hope of
Arkham, who supplied information important to my tale.

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MURDER!
It was with shock that one Georgia Smith telephoned the police early this morning and reported the murder of her employer Mrs. Nina Williams Hope. Ms. Smith arrived at the Hope house at 374 Curwen St to report to work this morning and found Mrs. Hope dead on the floor of her living room. The murder weapon is apparently a fireplace poker. Adding to the gruesomness of the attack was the fact that the murderer apparently carved the number "1" into Mrs. Hope's forehead.

Motive has not yet been settled on, but some cash and jewelry were stolen and Mrs. Hope's personal library appears to have been ransacked.