The Arkansas Democrat.

War Memorial additionally hosts the Arkansas High School football state champions, and starting in the loss of 2006 hosts one game apiece for the University of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State University likewise dips into the stadium from time to time.

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

Among the state's biggest public companies, with over 10,552 staff members, the College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Bookmarks its medical care companions-- Arkansas Children's Health center and the Central Arkansas Veterans Medical Care System-- have a total yearly financial influence in Arkansas of around $5 billion.

A land speculator from St. Louis, Missouri who had actually obtained numerous acres around the "little rock" started pressuring the Arkansas territorial legislature in February 1820 to relocate the funding to the site, yet the representatives might not decide in between Little Rock or Cadron (now Conway ), which was the favored site of Territorial Governor James Miller The concern was tabled till October 1820, by which time the majority of the lawmakers and various other influential males had bought great deals around Little Rock.