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Battle Memorial additionally holds the Arkansas High School football state champions, Bookmarks and starting in the autumn of 2006 hosts one video game apiece for the College of Central Arkansas and the College of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State University additionally dips into the arena every now and then.

As the region seat of Pulaski Region, the city was integrated on November 7, 1831, on the south financial institution of the Arkansas River near to the state's geographic center in Central Arkansas The city obtained its name from a rock development along the river, named the "Little Rock" (le petit rocher) by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in 1722.

One of the state's biggest public employers, with over 10,552 workers, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its medical care companions-- Arkansas Kid's Health center and the Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System-- have a complete yearly financial influence in Arkansas of around $5 billion.

Little Rock is home to the Arkansas Travelers They are the AA specialist Minor League 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 relocated right into Dickey-Stephens Park in nearby North Little Rock in April 2007.