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War Memorial also holds the Arkansas Senior high school football state champions, and starting in the autumn of 2006 hosts one game each for the College of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State University additionally plays at the stadium every now and then.

As the area seat of Pulaski County, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River near the state's geographic facility in Central Arkansas The city obtained 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.

One of the state's biggest public employers, with over 10,552 employees, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its healthcare partners-- Arkansas Kid's Healthcare facility and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System-- have a complete annual economic impact in Arkansas of about $5 billion.

A land speculator from St. Louis, Missouri who had actually acquired numerous acres around the "little rock" started pressing the Arkansas territorial legislature in February 1820 to move the funding to the website, Bookmarks but the representatives might not determine in between Little Rock or Cadron (currently Conway ), which was the favored website of Territorial Governor James Miller The issue was tabled till October 1820, by which time a lot of the lawmakers and other significant males had actually acquired lots around Little Rock.