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 closure of the branch, the station was called Tunbridge Wells Central.

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

Before the gates of the city the Romans defeated the Persians ( Battle of Ctesiphon ), driving them back into the city.

Before large-scale integration ( LSI ) UART integrated circuits were common, a minicomputer or microcomputer would have a serial port made of multiple small-scale integrated circuits to implement shift registers, logic gates, counters, and all the other logic for a serial port.

Before PALs were introduced, designers of digital logic circuits would use small-scale integration ( SSI ) components, such as those in the 7400 series TTL ( transistor-transistor logic ) family ; the 7400 family included a variety of logic building blocks, such as gates ( NOT, NAND, NOR, AND, OR ), multiplexers ( MUXes ) and demultiplexers ( DEMUXes ), flip flops ( D-type, JK, etc.

Before the American Era, entrance to the city was through eight gates or Puertas namely ( clockwise, from Fort Santiago ) Puerta Almacenes, Puerta de la Aduana, Puerta de Santo Domingo, Puerta Isabel II, Puerta del Parian, Puerta Real, Puerta Sta.

Before closing its gates, the city became a den of beggars attracted by a medical infrastructure which held more hope than the countryside.

Before construction of the dam could start the Ohau River was diverted by cutting a channel through a low, rocky extension of the Benmore Range and building three diversion gates there which consumed 100, 000 cubic metres of concrete.

Before rail privatisation, a ticket office was provided here, on the ' up ' side, in the signal cabin adjacent to the level crossing gates at the eastern end of the station.

Before entering the city, every traveller had to pass through eight toll gates, each of which collected a tax.

Before the creation of the lake, Icehouse Bottom was situated along the south bank of the Little Tennessee, approximately above the mouth of the river and nearly above the river's confluence with the Tellico River.

Before the New Deal, when the Tennessee Valley Authority built Guntersville Dam, flooding on the Tennessee River would frequently leave the county courthouse in Guntersville inaccessible for residents of Albertville and other areas atop Sand Mountain.

Before the construction of Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in 1941 and Larson Air Base in 1942 the area was largely barren.

This early appearance was later included as a bonus feature on WWE's Before They Were Superstars DVD and on WWE's Rob Van Dam: One of a Kind DVD.

Before the jet airline era, Port Bell was a landing point on the Imperial Airways flying boat passenger and mail route from Southampton to Johannesburg's Vaal Dam.

* " Before Warm Springs Dam: History of Lake Sonoma Area " This California study has information about one of the first ethnobotanical mitigation projects undertaken in the USA.

Before the construction of Copeton Dam and much diversionary work, the Gwydir River flowed into the Gingham and Lower Gwydir Wetlands.

Before the construction of the Dam, Burragorang Valley had been inhabited by white settlers since the 19th century.

Before the Dam was constructed, the town of Livermore served the area between Blairsville and Saltsburg as an important stop along the former canal, as well as the railroad.

Before Oroville Dam was built the mouth of the North Fork was located at.

Before that Carlo Van Dam and Nick De Bruijn ( both Dutch ) won the European Formula A Championship in 2001 and 2004 respectively.

Before the Trevallyn Dam was built upstream in the 1950s, flood waters could rise up as high as 12 metres.

Before the construction of the Aswan Dam, the Nobiin people lived mainly between the first and the third Cataracts of the Nile | cataract s along the shores of the Nile.

Before entering the Grand Traverse Bay, it becomes Boardman Lake, a natural lake that was originally in size and increased to after the Union Street Dam was constructed in 1867.

Before the construction of Flaming Gorge Dam in 1962, the Green River flooded annually, creating excellent waterfowl nesting, feeding and resting marshes in the backwater sloughs and old stream meanders.

Before completion of Albeni Falls Dam on the Pend Oreille River in 1952, the lake level dropped after the spring runoff.

Before the current Raystown Dam was constructed in 1972, the original dam underwent two purchases and one merger before it became the property of Pennsylvania Electric Company ( Penelec ) in 1946 ( Shuck, 1989 ).