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    Headstone gallery 040222 - Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal | of | Share this photo

    Kennebec County maintenance director Dan Brunelle examines an embossed, framed record Wednesday that he recovered in the basement of the Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta.

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    Headstone gallery 040222 - Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal | of | Share this photo

    Probate records clerk Debbie Ann Currier searches archives Wednesday in the basement of the former Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta. Records there date back to 1792.

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    Headstone gallery 040222 - Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal | of | Share this photo

    Paperwork, including 19th century insolvencies, are archived in the basement of the former Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta.

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    Portions of a weathervane that used to sit atop the Kennebec County jail were recovered in the basement of the former Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta.

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    Headstone gallery 040222 - Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal | of | Share this photo

    The headstone of Frank Fairbanks was recovered in the basement of the former Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta. Fairbanks was 16 years old when he died in the Kennebec County town of Rome in 1862.

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