The yellow fever epidemic that occurred in 1871 diversified the location of the population, mainly in the suburbs, as well as in the sectors near the capital, until then little chosen.

In 1833 he annexed a property whose fate would later be the site of the subdivision that occurred in 1873: Calle Real (current Alsina Avenue), Chacabuco, Rincón and Arenales.

In Banfield Vaulted streets and groves of paradise 417 Soaring lots, adjoining the great buildings of the Ferrocarril del Sud, under construction SUPERIOR TITLES - FREE SCRIPTURES Sunday 17th of the current at 12 o'clock ".

In 1871 there was an outbreak of yellow fever, at the same time that several families of an incipient middle class emigrated from Buenos Aires to Banfield.

The city began with a modest wooden box located in what is now the Banfield Station, from where Maipú (to the east) and French (to the west) streets emerge.

6,331, sanctioned on October 28, 1960, promulgated on November 11, and published in the Official Gazette on November 17, declared Banfield a City During the last military dictatorship in the country, self-styled National Reorganization Process, a clandestine detention center known as Pozo de Banfield operated at the intersection of Vernet and Siciliano streets; today it is a museum of memory.

[citation needed] Home of the Pio Collivadino Museum, Medrano 165, Lomas de Zamora: Collivadino, one of Argentina's most famous artists, was the Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and an organizer of the Prilidiano Pueyrreddon School of Fine Arts until he was forced to retire by the military dictator, General Pedro Pablo Ramirez, in 1944.