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Battle Memorial likewise holds the Arkansas Secondary school football state champions, and starting in the fall of 2006 hosts one video game apiece for the College of Central Arkansas and the College of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State College also plays at the stadium every so often.

As the area seat of Pulaski County, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south financial institution of the Arkansas River close to 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.

Among the state's biggest public employers, with over 10,552 employees, the College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its healthcare companions-- Arkansas Kid's Medical facility and the Central Arkansas Veterans Medical Care System-- have a total annual financial impact in Arkansas of about $5 billion.

A land speculator from St. Louis, Missouri that had actually obtained lots of acres around the "Little Rock, Arkansas Potholes rock" started pressuring the Arkansas territorial legislature in February 1820 to move the resources to the site, but the agents can not decide in between Little Rock or Cadron (currently Conway ), which was the favored website of Territorial Governor James Miller The problem was tabled until October 1820, whereby time most of the legislators and other influential guys had actually bought whole lots around Little Rock.