Delaware Valley College - Points of Interest

Points of Interest

  • Henry Schmieder Arboretum
  • Farm Market - located on Lower State Road
  • M. Night Shyamalan's Signs was filmed on the college's campus. Stars Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones, Abigail Breslin, and Rory Culkin along with producer Frank Marshall and Sam Mercer spent six months in the summer and fall of 2001 shooting the film.
  • Delaware Valley College has named Russell Redding, secretary of agriculture in the Rendell Administration, as Interim Dean of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.
  • DelVal was the subject of an Associated Press story that appeared in The New York Times. The college caught national attention in 2010 when the Warwick Foundation donated a gift valued at $29.8 million.
  • The college has plans to construct a life science center which will be a signature building on campus.
  • Roth Living Farm Museum

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