A collaboration between GDHS and Wallenpaupack School District is expanding the Society’s Lenape artifact collection…literally. When GDHS sought to have projectile points in its collection replicated and enlarged, they enlisted the help of David Heckman, computer engineering instructor at Wallenpaupack Area High School. Mr. Heckman put two of his senior engineering technology students to work creating scans of the projectile points. Seniors Tyler Lofberg and Andrew Bromberger (shown above) created high-definition scans and touched them up, a tedious process taking many hours. The scans were then put into the 3D printer to produce resin replicas of the arrowheads.
The students explained the 3D process and presented the results of their work to members and guests at Peggy Bancroft Hall on May 1, 2023. GDHS plans to use the replicated versions of these ancient artifacts as part of a Lenape exhibition at the Wallenpaupack South Elementary School.
The Lenape artifacts were collected by Anna Hazelton of Greentown who picked them up along Wallenpaupack Creek and Lake Wallenpaupack beginning in the early 1930s. They were donated to the Historical Society by Anna’s granddaughter Julie Hazelton Gebhart.
