Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
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Banfill House
John Banfill operated a busy hotel, tavern, store and post office from this building when the trail passed by here. In 1851 he started the town of Manomin, named for the Ojibwe word for wild rice. It later became Fridley.
The Banfill House was…