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War Memorial additionally holds the Arkansas High School football state champions, and beginning in the loss of 2006 hosts one game apiece for the College of Central Arkansas and the College of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State University also dips into the stadium every so often.

As the region seat of Pulaski County, the city was included on November 7, 1831, on the south financial institution of the Arkansas River close to the state's geographic center in Central Arkansas The city acquired its name from a rock formation along the river, named 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 health care companions-- Arkansas Children's Healthcare facility and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System-- have an overall yearly economic effect in Arkansas of about $5 billion.

Little Rock is home to the Arkansas Travelers They are the AA specialist Minors Baseball associate of the Seattle Mariners in the Texas Organization 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, Arkansas Potholes Rock in April 2007.