Before its closure it was the oldest operating penal facility west of the Mississippi River.

Before its closure, the fort was used as a German prisoner-of-war camp.

Before the British invasion of Virginia forced the temporary closure of the College of William and Mary and disbandment of the Phi Beta Kappa there early in 1781, Elisha Parmelee, an alumnus of Yale College and Harvard College, passed through Williamsburg and took charters from the Phi Beta Kappa to establish branches of the society at these schools.

Before its closure, the station was one of the less used stations on the network, with only about 1, 130 passengers a day.

Before the Gaza Strip's closure to Israel in 2000 following the Al-Aqsa Intifada, most residents had taken a number of various jobs in Israel or worked as farmers at local tells and pastures.

Before the closure of the Photo Imaging unit, the Dimâge lineup included the long-zoom Z line, the E / G lines ( the G series finally incorporating former Konica models ), the thin / light X line, and the advanced A line.

Before the closing, local radio DJs and television newscasts referred to it as " Carmageddon " and " Carpocalypse ", parodying the notion of Armageddon and the Apocalypse, since it was anticipated that the closure would severely impact traffic.

Before the closure, the Hillbrow tower was one of the largest tourist draws in Johannesburg.

Before its closure due to a 1993 Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) decision, the base was also used as a staging area and departure point for aircraft participating in the annual Chicago Air & Water Show.

Before it became the Nordic Heritage Museum in 1980, the red brick building was originally the Daniel Webster Elementary School from 1907 to 1979, when low student enrollment led to its closure.

Before the closure of the churches in 1926, there was a meeting of the National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty which discussed the possibility of armed rebellion to overthrow the government.

Before the closure of " Népszínház " in Budapest, it was the second largest opera building in Budapest.

Before closure in the 1960s, this was the junction of two lines, one from Market Harborough and the other from Northampton.

Before the election, party leader Vidar Kleppe tried to bolster support for the party by calling for the closure of all Mosques in Norway if they did not clearly distance themselves from terrorism.

Before its temporary closure in 2005, the track hosted races in several series including the Indy Racing League and NASCAR's Busch and Truck series.

Before the closure of RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Croughton had relied on the larger base for administrative support to one degree or another.

Before the closure of the gates of Tellico Dam, numerous snail darters were transplanted into the Hiwassee River in Tennessee.

Before the threatened closure, the Junior School had been phased out and there were very few fee paying day students.

Before IBAN, differing national standards for bank account identification ( i. e., bank, branch, routing codes, and account number ) were confusing for some users.

Before the steamboat era faded, Camden had become a railroad town — served by the mainline of the Texas and St. Louis ( Cotton Belt ) and by branch lines of the Missouri Pacific and the Rock Island railroads.

Before cocoa production, the local economy has been based on beer breweries, jenever distilleries, production of Weesper porcelain, and trade, due to its location on a branch point of waterways.

Before Deutsche Grammophon founded its own American branch in 1969, it had a distribution deal with American Decca until 1962 when distribution switched to MGM Records.

Before the Joint Army / Navy ( JAN ) phonetic alphabet, each branch of the armed forces used its own radio alphabet, leading to difficulties in interbranch communication.

Before Landrieu was elected, there were no high-ranking black employees or officials in City Hall ; he worked actively to change this by appointing African Americans to top positions, including Chief Administrative Officer, the number two position in the executive branch of city government.

Before the passage of the Presidential Succession Act, succession was setup to keep the Executive branch of the Presidency separate from the Legislative branch.

Before World War II, the SIS had been a relatively minor and uninfluential branch of the British government ; budgetary pressures after World War I and during the 1930s years of the Great Depression were the main reasons for this.

Before this album, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams resigned because of musical differences with Ian Anderson ; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues-rock sound of This Was, while Anderson wished to branch out into other musical forms.

Before the Peace of Constantine ( 313 AD ), in which Rome ceased its persecution of Christians, Noah is normally shown in an attitude of prayer, a dove with an olive branch nearly always flying toward him or alighting on his outstretched hand.

Before the One Year War this branch is listed under the above branches and was commanded by generals appointed by those three.

Before version 0. 95, each GNU Classpath release consisted of two separate release tarballs ; one that represented the state of the main development branch and another that contained the contents of a more experimental branch, supporting the additions, such as generics, enumerations and annotations, present in Java 1. 5.

Before the building was taken over for granted by the library, a branch of National Bank of Poland ( Narodowy Bank Polski-abbreviation: NBP ) took place in here. Dino supermarket

Before his election he was active in the trade union movement and was a branch chairman of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers ( NASUWT ) 1979-1996 and has been a member of the Transport and General Workers Union since 1997.

Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the land along the Rio Hondo River, a branch of the San Gabriel River, was populated by the Tongva part of the Uto-Aztecan family Native Americans.

Before becoming Viscounts and Earls of Mayo, the senior branch of the family held the Gaelic title Mac William Íochtar and received the White Rod.

Before CTA lines were color-coded in 1993, the Brown Line was known as the Ravenswood Route ; specifically, the series of stations from Belmont to Kimball were called the Ravenswood branch.

Before entering politics, Webster was a farmer, and headed the Auckland branch of the Federated Farmers organisation.

Before the 1923 Grouping the first section of the line ( Leeds-Bradford ) was owned by the Great Northern Railway ( GNR ); and the entire remainder by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( L & YR ), apart from the final section of the branch leading into Huddersfield, which was owned by the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ).

Before joining the submarine branch, Magennis served on the destroyer Kandahar which was mined off Tripoli, Libya, in December 1941 whilst Magennis was on board.

Before the Universal design was introduced, production was by Aveling and Porter, Bedford Vehicles, the British branch of the Ford Motor Company, Morris Motors LImited, the Sentinel Waggon Works, and the Thornycroft company.

For Stendhal, " love is largely self-generated ", and falling in love a " process Stendhal calls crystallization .... Before you fall in love, you see the other person as a bare branch ; as you fall, you coat him or her with jeweled attractions about 80 percent of your own making ".

Before the Primary and Secondary system, SR 8 in 1923 was part of a branch of State Road 9, from Elma to Grand Mound.