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Battle Memorial additionally hosts the Arkansas High School football state championships, and starting in the loss of 2006 hosts one game apiece for Bookmarks the College of Central Arkansas and the College of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State University also dips into the arena from time to time.

As the region seat of Pulaski Area, the city was integrated on November 7, 1831, on the south financial institution of the Arkansas River near the state's geographical facility in Central Arkansas The city acquired its name from a rock formation along the river, called the "Little 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 workers, the College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its medical care partners-- Arkansas Children's Medical facility and the Central Arkansas Veterans Medical Care System-- have a total yearly economic influence in Arkansas of around $5 billion.

A land speculator from St. Louis, Missouri who had gotten numerous acres around the "little rock" started pressuring the Arkansas territorial legislature in February 1820 to relocate the resources to the website, but the representatives could not decide between Little Rock or Cadron (now Conway ), which was the preferred site of Territorial Governor James Miller The issue was tabled until October 1820, whereby time a lot of the legislators and various other prominent males had acquired lots around Little Rock.