On January 13th, 1886, Daniel Billington Griffin bought a tract of land in Wakefield Village from Rowland and John N. Hazard for 2,000 dollars at the corner of Post Road, present-day Main Street, and Robinson Street opposite the railroad station, present-day Northup’s Imported Car Service. He began adding buildings to the previously vacant parcel, and by 1886 D.B. Griffin's Apothecary was operating from the current home of Brickley's Ice Cream. Additional structures followed at 328 Main Street in 1888, 330 Main Street in 1892, 324 and 326 Main Street in 1895, and 318 Main Street circa 1920, while other buildings once stood along Robinson Street and in the rear parking areas before being removed or replaced. In 1888 Mary Whaley, in her short story "A Stroll Down Main Street," referred to the corner of Main and Robinson Street as "Griffin's Hollow," where the circus would set up and townspeople would gather to watch the performance.