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

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

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

A weathervane that was recovered in the basement of the former Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta is seen on Wednesday.

The headstone of Frank Fairbanks, seen on Wednesday, 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.