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The Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women

The Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Ambler, Montgomery County, dedicated 2002.

580 Meetinghouse Road, Ambler

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This school was among the first in the nation to educate women for careers in horticulture and agriculture. It was founded in 1910 on this site by Jane Bowne Haines and a "congress of women." Three years later the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association originated here at a meeting sponsored by the school. During WWI & WWII PSHW trained women to grow and preserve food for the war effort. In 1958, PSHW merged with Temple University.

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1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Germantown, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1899 · Germantown, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1902 · Philadelphia and vicinity, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware / Henry Gannett, chief… (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1903 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties, 1872, covering the location of The Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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The Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women

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