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

As the area seat of Pulaski Area, the city was integrated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River close to the state's geographical center 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 workers, the College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its health care companions-- Arkansas Children's Health center and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System-- have a total annual economic impact in Arkansas of about $5 billion.

Little Rock is home to the Arkansas Travelers They are the AA professional Minors Baseball associate of the Seattle Mariners in the Texas League The Travelers played their last game in Little Rock at Ray Winder Field on September 3, 2006, and relocated into Dickey-Stephens Park in neighboring North Little Rock, Arkansas Potholes Rock in April 2007.