Stowe was partly inspired to create Uncle Tom's Cabin by The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself the 1849 slave narrative of Josiah Henson, a former enslaved black man who had lived and worked on a tobacco plantation in North Bethesda, Maryland, owned by Isaac Riley.

Formerly a gated community that now posts private access signage, all land is owned by homeowners with the North Oaks Home Owners Association maintaining all roads, plowing, parks, facilities, and recreation trails.

Formerly owned by the DeLong company, the factory is now owned by a group of local investors.

Formerly a United States Navy facility, the former naval air station is now owned and operated by the NASA Ames Research Center.

Formerly the Hokushin Line was owned by the operator, Hokushin Kyuko Electric Railway.

Formerly the home of the late crime writer Agatha Christie, this has stunning views across the river, and the house and gardens are now owned by the National Trust and are open to the public.

Formerly owned and operated by Fort Howard

Formerly BUPA Elland Independent Hospital, it is now owned and operated by Classic Hospitals.

Formerly BUPA Yale Hospital, it is now owned and operated by Spire Healthcare.

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Formerly owned by Trans World Communications, EMAP and now by Bauer Radio, Key 103 is part of Bauer's Place Network of stations.

Formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of HBOS plc, it was sold in October 2008 to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for 2. 1 billion.

Formerly owned and operated by the University of Toronto from its establishment in 1935 until 2008, the observatory is now managed by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre.

Formerly known as Hakongruppen and owned by Stein Erik Hagen, it operated solely RIMI discount stores until ICA bought the chain, and transformed many of the stores to the ICA brand.

Formerly owned by Colorado State University-Pueblo, KTSC had been the PBS station for Pueblo and Colorado Springs since 1971.

Formerly a large company town owned by Crown Zellerbach, it is only accessible via boat or seaplane, and is home for a few dozen full-time residents, with the seasonal population upwards of 100.

Formerly a NASDAQ listed public company, InFocus was purchased by Image Holdings Corp., owned by John Hui, in 2009 and is now a wholly owned subsidiary.

Formerly owned by Pyramid Breweries, Inc., it was sold in 2007 to Adventure Funds of Portland, Oregon, which is running the company under the Kemper Co. name.

The line is presently ( 2007 ) owned by Union Pacific, and is the operation line of Amtrak's ( Formerly Southern Pacific's ) Coast Starlight.

Formerly owned and operated by TVOntario, TFO became an independent agency of the provincial government of Ontario in 2007.

Formerly, the IC & E was jointly owned with the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad by Cedar American Rail Holdings ( CARH ), making the combined system the largest class II railroad in the US.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Formerly, they were administered from Paris by an assisted by a secretary-general ; since December 2004, however, their administrator has been a préfet, currently Rollon Mouchel-Blaisot, with headquarters in Saint-Pierre on Réunion Island.

Formerly handwritten, these can now be generated by genealogical software.

Formerly a Liberal stronghold, the industrial districts switched to Labour by 1922, with a base in the Irish Catholic working class districts.

( Formerly, the year on the seal was 1664, the year of the provisional Articles of Transfer, ensuring New Netherlanders that they " shall keep and enjoy the liberty of their consciences in religion ", negotiated with the English by Pieter Stuyvesant and his council ).

Formerly little more than a gap in the customs wall, it was replaced by a much grander affair consisting of two matching Doric-style stone gate-houses, like little temples ( a nod to Friedrich Gilly perhaps ), facing each other across Leipziger Straße.

Formerly by law, and now by tradition, the highest positions, such as Rector or Dean, are only held by professors.

Peter B. Gustavson School of Business – Formerly the Faculty of Business, renamed following a donation by local entrepreneur Peter B. Gustavson.

Formerly the Danish West Indies, they were sold to the United States by Denmark in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

Formerly empowered local lords who did not want to be oppressed by greedy kings emigrated overseas.

Formerly the main population of the medieval state of Kievan Rus, by the seventeenth century they evolved into the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian peoples.

Formerly, much time would be spent by the Casal faller preparing the ninots ( Valencian for puppets or dolls ).

Formerly known as Aeronautica Macchi, the company was founded in 1913 by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy.

Formerly titled the W. C. Handy Awards, the International Blues Awards are presented by the Blues Foundation ( headquartered in Memphis ) for Blues music achievement, with weeklong competitions and an awards banquet including a night of performance and celebration.

Formerly, state legislatures appointed the U. S. Senators from their respective states until the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913 required the direct election of Senators by a state's voters.

Formerly in Pakistan most transportation was done by horse-drawn carriages called tongas, but more cost-effective auto rickshaws have now taken their place in small cities.

Formerly, all outside visitors to a public dance would be offered a meal in a Pueblo home, but because of the large number of visitors, such meals are now by personal invitation only.

Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

Formerly a village in its own right, it lies to the southwest of the city and is bounded to the south by the White Cart Water.

Formerly it was a walled city surrounded by fortifications and gates ( doroshi ).

Formerly self-styled as the " World's Greatest Newspaper " ( for which WGN radio and television are named ), it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is currently the eighth largest newspaper in the United States by circulation ( and became the second largest under Tribune's ownership after the Chicago Tribune's parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times ).

Formerly managed jointly by Kent and Essex county councils, the crossing is now managed by Connect Plus ( M25 ) Limited on behalf of the Highways Agency.