Gaps In Little Rock

War Memorial likewise hosts the Arkansas Senior high school football state champions, and beginning in the loss of 2006 hosts one game each for the University of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State College also plays at the stadium every so often.

As the region seat of Pulaski Area, the city was included on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River near to the state's geographical center in Central Arkansas The city acquired its name from a rock development along the river, named 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, Bookmarks with over 10,552 workers, the University 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 a complete yearly financial effect in Arkansas of about $5 billion.

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