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William and George Harmer are listed among the Quakers who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682. In 1716, William and George Harmer purchased a 408 acre tract from William Penn, an area including most of what now is Ambler Borough. They are credited as the first landholders to actually settle in the area. William Harmer built a grist mill powered by the Wissahickon Creek, "the first commercial venture in the Ambler area".

Residents sought permission from The Crown to build roads in the area. The first road built in Ambler, now known as Mt. Pleasant Avenue, was developed in 1730. It went from Harmer's Mill to North Wales Road, which is now Bethlehem Pike. causing a nearby creek to be nicknamed "Tannery Run". Between 1750 and 1850, industries developed throughout the watershed, using local waterways to provide power and carry away waste. The area supported nine mills, producing flour, timber, paper and cloth. They are identified by Dr. Mary Hough as Plumly Mill (first owned by William Harmer), Fulling Mill (owned by Andrew and Mary Ambler), Thomson's Mill, Reiff Mill, Wertsner Mill, Hague Mill, Burk Mill, a Silk Mill, and a Clover and Chopping and Saw Mill. She turned her house at Tennis Avenue and Main Street into an impromptu hospital for nursing the survivors. Thirteen years later, in 1869, the railway company renamed the station Ambler in her honor. The post office followed suit, and when the borough was formally incorporated on June 16, 1888, it too took the name of Ambler, in honor of Mary Ambler. The original K&M factory was built as of 1883. When the company arrived, the town consisted of "70 houses, 250 residents, a drug store, general store and a few other businesses." Keasbey and Mattison invested heavily in the town, bringing in Southern Italian stoneworkers to build 400 houses for workers and managers, as well as offices, an opera house, the Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church, and Mattison's personal estate, Lindenwold Castle. Many of the Italians stayed in Ambler, helping to form its cultural identity. Maida, Calabria is the town's sister city today. The company also employed African Americans, originally from West Virginia, in the less desirable wet processing areas of the asbestos plant. They tended to settle in west and south Ambler. However, the Great Depression took its toll, and the company was sold to an English concern, Turner & Newall (T&N), in 1934. By the 1950s, evidence linking asbestos to cancer was mounting. Richard Doll, an epidemiologist at Turner and Newall, reported (in spite of company pressure) that people exposed to asbestos for 20 or more years had a 10 times higher risk of developing lung cancer than the general population. Also, a formerly rare and almost always fatal cancer, mesothelioma, was reported in epidemic proportions near asbestos mines in South Africa. In the 1960s, the British Journal of Industrial Medicine indicated that simply living near an asbestos factory, or in an asbestos insulated building, increased mesothelioma risk. By 1973, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), began to restrict the use of asbestos, stopping the sale of insulation spray in 1973, and of solid asbestos insulation in 1975. Nicolet filed for bankruptcy in 1987. As health concerns about asbestos became widely known, it too found itself in Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to asbestos liability.

A 2011 study by the Pennsylvania Department of Health reviewed data from 1992 to 2008, and reported that mesothelioma was diagnosed 3.1 times more often in Ambler residents than in other Pennsylvania residents. The higher rates were attributed to previous asbestos exposure in the factories. From 1973 to 1993 the United States EPA oversaw remediation of the BoRit Asbestos waste dump, The site is reviewed every five years by the EPA. The EPA estimated that it would complete the initial cleanup phase at the BoRit site as of 2015. In 2013, Heckendorn Shiles Architects and Summit Realty Advisers successfully converted the derelict factory and smokestack of the Keasbey & Mattison company into a LEED Platinum Certified multi tenant office building, the Ambler Boiler House. The adaptive reuse project won support from the EPA's Brownfields Program and the EnergyWorks program. The renovations cost $16 million, and have resulted in a building with substantial green features including a grey water system, geothermal energy, solar panels and a reflective roof system, and high efficiency glass.

Ambler is located at (40.155099, 75.220160). According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2 km2), all land.

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As of the 2010 census, the borough was 76.5% White, 12.8% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 3.8% Asian, 0.3% Native Hawaiian, and 3.4% were two or more races. 7.9% were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry, an almost four fold increase since the 2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,426 people, 2,510 households, and 1,598 families residing in the borough. The population density was There were 2,605 housing units at an average density of The racial makeup of the borough was 83.29% White, 12.03% African American, 0.25% Native American, 2.47% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.50% from other races, and 1.40% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.13% of the population. There were 2,510 households, out of which 29.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.7% were married couples living together, 13.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.3% were non families. 30.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 3.08. In the borough the population was spread out, with 23.5% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 32.5% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 17.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 86.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.8 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $47,014, and the median income for a family was $51,235. Males had a median income of $40,305 versus $30,735 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $21,688. About 2.4% of families and 5.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.8% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over.

Ambler has a city manager form of government with a mayor and a nine member borough council. The mayor is Jeanne Sorg. The borough is part of the Fourth Congressional District (represented by Rep. Madeleine Dean), the 151st State House District (represented by Representative Melissa Cerrato) and the 12th State Senate District (represented by Sen. Maria Collett).

Ambler is served by the Wissahickon School District. In 2004, the Wissahickon School District had 4,535 students. Wissahickon School District has six schools: four elementary, one middle (grades 6 8) and one high school (grades 9 12). There is an area Catholic grade school, Our Lady of Mercy Regional Catholic School, in Maple Glen. Our Lady of Mercy was formed in 2012 by the merger of St. Anthony St. Joseph in Ambler, St. Alphonsus in Maple Glen, and St. Catherine of Siena in Horsham. Temple University, whose main campus is in nearby urban Philadelphia, has a suburban campus that is referred to as the Ambler Campus. The main contact address for the campus has an Ambler postal address, 580 Meetinghouse Road, Ambler, PA 19002. and is in the purview of the Upper Dublin Township Police. Temple University Ambler was founded in 1910 as the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women. It offers an array of undergraduate, graduate, and non credit programs.

Act II Playhouse is a 130 seat professional theatre founded in 1998. Act II has been nominated for 31 Barrymore Awards and has won six.

Founded in 1951, the Ambler Symphony Orchestra currently performs several concerts per year under the musical direction of WRTI program director Jack Moore.

Originally opened in 1927 as a Warner Brothers movie theater, the recently restored and renovated Ambler Theater is a non profit, community owned movie theater that shows independent, art and limited distribution films.

Post office murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department. The murals were intended to boost the morale of the American people from the effects of the Depression by depicting uplifting subjects. The murals were funded as a part of the cost of the construction or renovation with 1% of the cost set aside for artistic enhancements. In 1939, artist Harry Sternberg completed the mural The Family, Industry and Architecture for the town's post office. The artist and his family are the main figures in the painting.

As of 2018, there were 15.72 mile (25 km) of public roads in Ambler, of which 0.98 mile (2 km) were maintained by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 14.74 mile (24 km) were maintained by the borough. Butler Avenue serves as the main street through Ambler, with the road known as Butler Pike outside the borough. Butler Pike heads southwest to Plymouth Meeting and northeast to Horsham Township. Bethlehem Pike runs along the eastern border of Ambler and heads north to Montgomeryville and south to Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Route 309 passes to the east of Ambler on a freeway called the Fort Washington Expressway, with access to Ambler at a southbound exit and northbound entrance at Butler Pike and a northbound exit and southbound entrance at Susquehanna Road. The Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 276) has an interchange with PA 309 south of Ambler in Fort Washington. Ambler is served by SEPTA Regional Rail's Lansdale/Doylestown Line, which provides service to Center City Philadelphia, Lansdale, Doylestown, and other intermediate points, at Ambler station, which is a major park and ride facility on the line. SEPTA Suburban Division bus routes and also serve Ambler, with Route 94 connecting Ambler to the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia and the Montgomery Mall and Route 95 connecting Ambler to Willow Grove and Gulph Mills.