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<p>Devon: Added fb links, corrected seneschal, area of coverage, corrected official webpage link</p> <hr /> <div>''Disambiguation note: You may be looking for the [[Shire of Blackmoor Keep]] in the [[Kingdom of Gleann Abhann]]''<br /> {{SCA Shire box|name = Blackwater Keep|color = red|metal = gold|device = [[Image:Blackwater-Keeparms.jpg|150px|Blackwater Keep [[device]]]] | caption = [[Or]], a [[tower]] within a [[laurel wreath]] [[gules]] and a [[base]] [[engrailed]] [[sable]] [[scaly]] [[Or]]. | founded = 1986 | seneschal = Lord Devon | area = Clovis, NM. | kingdom = Outlands}}<br /> <br /> '''Blackwater Keep''' is an [[SCA]] [[Shire]] in the [[Kingdom of Outlands]] mundanely located in Clovis / Portales/ Cannon AFB, New Mexico.<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> Blackwater Keep was originally established September 20, [[1986]] as the '''Shire of Scorpions Hollow'''. <br /> The original [[name]] was [[name registration|registered]] in March of [[1987]], with the meaning &quot;A Place of Scorpions.&quot; <br /> The original [[device]] registered in March of 1987: ''[[Gules]], eight [[scorpion]]s [[in annulo]], facing outward, all within a [[laurel wreath]] [[Or]].''<br /> <br /> The earliest SCA group in this area was originally called [[La Plaine Jalonné]], meaning &quot;The Staked Plains,&quot; (literally - 'the plains marked out'), hence the Shire's annual Fall [[war]] [[event]] called &quot;[[War of the Staked Plains]].&quot;<br /> <br /> '''A New Beginning in the Shire''' <br /> <br /> The Shire voted to change the name and device in late [[2003]]. Various names were submitted and voted on by the members of the Shire. Shortly thereafter, various device designs were submitted and voted on by the members of the Shire. '''Blackwater Keep''' was chosen for the new name and ''&quot;[[Or]], a [[tower]] within a [[laurel wreath]] [[gules]] and a [[base]] [[engrailed]] [[sable]] [[scaly]] [[Or]]&quot;'' was chosen as the new device. Submissions were made, with the new name becoming official in May of 2005 and the new device in July 2005. The Shire's old device was retained as a historic [[badge]].<br /> <br /> ==External Links==<br /> [http://blackwaterkeep.webs.com/ Blackwater Keep Home page]<br /> <br /> [http://www.facebook.com/groups/110122529157931 The Unofficial Blackwater Keep Facebook Members page]<br /> <br /> [https://www.facebook.com/Shire-of-Blackwater-Keep-532730660099296/ The Unofficial Blackwater Keep Facebook Public page]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Shires of the Outlands}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Shires (SCA)|Blackwater Keep]]</div>

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