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Battle Memorial additionally holds the Arkansas Senior high school football state champions, and beginning in the autumn of 2006 hosts one video game apiece for the University of Central Arkansas and the College of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State College also dips into the arena from time to time.

As the region seat of Pulaski County, the city was integrated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River near the state's geographical facility in Central Arkansas The city obtained 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 largest public companies, with over 10,552 employees, the College of Arkansas for Bookmarks Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its healthcare companions-- Arkansas Kid's Hospital and the Central Arkansas Veterans Medical Care System-- have a complete yearly financial impact in Arkansas of around $5 billion.

A land speculator from St. Louis, Missouri that had actually gotten numerous acres around the "little rock" began pushing the Arkansas territorial legislature in February 1820 to relocate the resources to the site, yet the reps might not decide between Little Rock or Cadron (currently Conway ), which was the preferred site of Territorial Governor James Miller The problem was tabled up until October 1820, through which time most of the lawmakers and other influential males had acquired great deals around Little Rock.