Prior to the construction of these infrastructures, transbay transportation was dominated by fleets of ferryboats operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Key System transit company.

Prior to construction Stephenson House was moved to a new location further east on Charles St.

Prior to the construction of a dam at the resurgence to feed water to the paper mill downstream, two more chambers ( the Fourth and Fifth ) were accessible.

Prior to his career in philosophy and education with Dr Adler, Weismann was a consultant in the field of architecture, construction management and exhibit design and fabrication.

Prior to the United States ' involvement in the conflict, construction began on MacDill Field, the predecessor of present day MacDill Air Force Base.

Prior to the construction of the Catalina Highway on the opposite side of the Santa Catalina range, the Oracle Control Road was the only road access to the mountain community of Summerhaven.

Prior to its construction, the tract of land had been used as a horse racing track and a fairground.

Prior to the construction of U. S. Route 3, along the Connecticut, this was the only road north to Pittsburg.

Prior to the construction of the Northway ( Interstate 87 ), US Route 9 was the major north-south highway between Albany and Montreal, which made Schroon Lake a convenient stopping off point for travelers to purchase gas, lodging, and meals.

Prior to the construction of the current chapel, Roman Catholic services were held in the ice house at Lakeview House.

Prior to the introduction of fibreglass as a construction material, dories were more popular because their ease of assembly and, thereby, lower cost.

Prior to the construction of the railroad in 1883, Moab was a strategic place to cross the Colorado River.

Prior to the construction of the ward house church was held in the homes of the settlers.

Prior to the construction of English park the festival was held in the War Memorial park on 7Th St.

Prior to the actual construction of the navigation, there had been almost 120 years of proposals for such a scheme, and opposition from the port of Maldon, which anticipated that its revenues would fall if vessels could travel to Chelmsford.

Prior to the construction of a museum on the site, archaeologists unearthed a mass grave and personal belongings of the Jewish victims.

Prior to the choice of the name, its construction site had been shown on maps as the generic Bay View Stadium.

Prior to the construction of Kansai International Airport, Osaka was the smallest prefecture in Japan.

Prior to the construction of the current complex, the UN was headquartered at a temporary location at the Sperry Gyroscope Corporation's offices in Lake Success, New York, an eastern suburb of the city in Nassau County on Long Island, from 1946 – 1952.

Prior to construction, most residents in towns like Fairbanks — still recovering from the devastating 1967 Fairbanks Flood — strongly supported the pipeline.

Prior to construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, otherwise known as the Salmon Bay Waterway, water used to exit Lake Washington via the Black River which flowed from the south end of Lake Washington into the Duwamish River.

Prior to the construction of The Pentagon during the 1940s, the Second Empire-style Ohio State Asylum for the Insane in Columbus, Ohio was reported to be the largest building under one roof in the U. S., though the title may actually belong to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, another Kirkbride Second Empire asylum.

Prior to the planned opening in 2005, THSRC blamed TSC for construction delays, identifying that as the reason for the postponement of the opening.

Prior to the construction of the causeway, Cape Breton Island was connected to the mainland by separate railway car and motor vehicle ferries.

Prior to the construction of Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly was the main airport of Paris.

Prior to Hogan's Heroes, Klemperer appeared in the 1956 episode ' Safe Conduct ' of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, along with future co-star John Banner ; twice appeared as Hugo on the syndicated romantic comedy series, How to Marry a Millionaire ( 1957 – 1959 ), with Barbara Eden and Merry Anders ; and appeared on the " Purple Gang " episode of The Untouchables.

Prior to the redevelopment, Eden Park had a crowd capacity of 42, 000 for cricket, and 47, 500 for rugby.

Blake's musical publications include Sweet fields of Eden: for the Sabbath School, with J. H. Tenney and Aldine S. Kieffer ( Dayton, VA, 1882 ); Sabbath Bells: for the Sunday School, and for prayer, praise, and gospel meetings, with A. J. Showalter, B. F. Nysewander and Charles E. Prior ( Dayton, VA, 1884 ); and The Royal Proclamation, edited by Aldine S. Kieffer and Blake ( Dayton, VA, 1886 ).

Prior to 1921 " Uzbek " and " Sart " were considered to be different dialects ; " Uzbek " was a vowel-harmonised Kipchak dialect spoken by descendants of those who arrived in Transoxiana with Shaybani Khan in the 16th century, who lived mainly around Bukhara and Samarkand, although the Turkic spoken in Tashkent was also vowel-harmonised ; " Sart " was a Qarluq dialect spoken by the older settled Turkic populations of the region in the Ferghana Valley and the Kashka-Darya region, and in some parts of what is now the Samarkand Province ; it contained a heavier admixture of Persian and Arabic, and did not use vowel-harmony.

Prior to 1782, with the exception of occasional failed colonization schemes, the Europeans ignored the vast Ouachita Valley, which extended from the area around Hot Springs, Arkansas southward towards the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

Prior to the 2010 census, it was dissolved into Homewood Canyon CDP and Valley Wells CDP.

Prior to the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the arrival of European settlers from Mexico, the land of the Yucaipa Valley was occupied by the Serrano Indians for possibly 1, 000 years.

Prior to that time, the territory now included in Badger Township was within the watershed of the Red River Valley and hence technically a part of Rupert's Land and Assiniboia before becoming part of British Canada as a result of the boundary settlement in the Treaty of 1818, a which fixed the international border at the 49th parallel north from the Northwest Angle of Lake of the Woods westward to the Rocky Mountains.

Prior to the current name of Waldorf, it was known as Plum Valley.

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Shoshone, Flathead, and Bannock tribes hunted the Madison Valley each spring.

Prior to the creation of Lake Mead, Moapa Valley also included the town of St. Thomas, which was abandoned in 1938 due to the rising lake level.

Prior to 1986, Chestnut Ridge was an unincorporated area within the town of Ramapo often referred to as " South Spring Valley " ( its fire district ), as many postal addresses carried the Spring Valley designation.

Prior to naming the territory Spring Valley, it was called Scotland, named after their homeland, by Scotsmen who had settled in the area.

Prior to the American Civil War, the area was known locally as White Hill, which served as a stop along the Cumberland Valley Railroad between Harrisburg and Carlisle.

Prior to the 2011 school year Appalachia High School was merged with Powell Valley High School in neighboring Big Stone Gap to form Union High School.

Prior to that, hostilities between whites and Indians all along the Ohio River Valley probably precluded the possibility of settlement in the absence of a substantial stockade.

Prior to preservation, the Severn Valley line was never financially successful.

Prior to European settlement, the Sammamish River Valley from Lake Washington to Issaquah Creek south and upstream of Lake Sammamish was inhabited by a population of as many as 200 native Americans known as the Sammamish.

Prior to Friends, she appeared in at least two produced network pilots: NBC's Just Temporary ( also known as Temporarily Yours ) in 1989, playing Nicole ; and CBS ' Close Encounters ( also known as Matchmaker ) in 1990, playing a Valley girl.

Prior to its use as the name of the city, the term " the Saguenay " or ( less commonly ) " Saguenay Valley " had already been used for the whole Saguenay River region ( see Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean ).

Prior to its closure in 2009, the Valley of the Fallen was the third most visited site of the Patrimonio Nacional after only the Royal Palace of Madrid and El Escorial.

Prior to World War II, the British Air Ministry had identified Germany's heavily industrialised Ruhr Valley, and especially its dams, as important strategic targets: in addition to providing hydro-electric power and pure water for steel-making, they also supplied drinking water and water for the canal transport system.

Prior to 1856, there were only two provinces in the Cagayan Valley Region: Cagayan and Nueva Vizcaya.

Prior to the rezoning, the Arleta area was zoned to San Fernando High School in the city of San Fernando, and John H. Francis Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley.

Prior to that time the region drained southward across the saddle between the Atlantic Highlands and the Newark Basin into the Delaware River Valley.

Prior to the rural to urban migration, the Amerindian and Afro-Ecuadorian ethnicities were mostly constrained to the Andes region and province of Esmeraldas and the Chota Valley in the province of Imbabura respectively.

Prior to that, NMSU was a member of the Big West Conference ( called the Pacific Coast Athletic Association until 1988 ), Missouri Valley Conference and the Border Conference.