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JSM Note: According to other records, Fred Griffin and William Fuller had already subdivided the Highliands

in 1923 or shortly before, since some of the waterfront homes in the Highlands had already been built by 1923.

The Griffin home on Griffin's point (at the edge of Circle beach) was built in 1914 by Bradley (Founder of the

New Haven Candy Company). Shohola (the first house built on Circle beach or in the Highlands except for the

original Kelsey tobacco farm homestead ) was built sometime between 1870 (the inscrption on its chimney)

and 1914.

The Griffin house now belongs to the Shultz's. It also has an interesting History. This was offered by

Henry Norton ...

" Those "caves" in the Shultz's wall used to be bath houses with showers for people swimming off the wall. Prior to the '38 hurricane Circle Beach was very nice beach. People swam off the wall. I assume the giant rocks were there back then, but even at low tide the bottom, right up to the wall, was sand. Even now, after the first 20 feet of rocks, the bottom is sandy. As kids we used to play around that area, on the seawall rocks, and in the "caves".