Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women

On Meetinghouse Road in Ambler, a groundbreaking educational experiment took root in nineteen ten. Jane Bowne Haines founded the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women here, backed by what the marker calls a congress of women, making it one of the first institutions in the nation to train women professionally for careers in horticulture and agriculture. A few years later the Women's National Farm and Garden Association was organized at a meeting held on the same grounds.

The school found its greatest purpose during wartime: in both World War One and World War Two, students trained here in the practical skills of growing and preserving food to support the war effort. After nearly half a century of operation the school merged with Temple University in nineteen fifty-eight, its legacy folded into what is now Temple's Ambler campus.