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War Memorial likewise holds the Arkansas Senior high school football state champions, and beginning in the autumn of 2006 hosts one game apiece for the College of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State College additionally dips into the arena once in a while.

As the region seat of Pulaski County, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River near to the state's geographical facility in Central Arkansas The city acquired its name from a rock development along the river, named the "little rock arkansas potholes Rock" (le petit rocher) by the French traveler Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in 1722.

One of the state's biggest public companies, with over 10,552 employees, the College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its health care companions-- Arkansas Children's Health center and the Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System-- have an overall yearly economic effect in Arkansas of around $5 billion.

Little Rock is home to the Arkansas Travelers They are the AA expert Minors Baseball associate of the Seattle Mariners in the Texas League The Travelers played their last game in Little Rock at Ray Winder Area on September 3, 2006, and moved into Dickey-Stephens Park in close-by North Little Rock in April 2007.