The Arkansas Democrat.

Battle Memorial also hosts the Arkansas Senior high school football state championships, and beginning in the fall of 2006 hosts one game each for the University of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State College also plays at the arena every so often.

As the region seat of Pulaski County, the city was included on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River near the state's geographic center in Central Arkansas The city acquired its name from a rock development along the river, called 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 employees, the College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its medical care companions-- Arkansas Kid's Health center and the Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System-- have a complete annual economic influence in Arkansas of around $5 billion.

A land speculator Bookmarks from St. Louis, Missouri who had actually obtained lots of acres around the "little rock" began pressuring the Arkansas territorial legislature in February 1820 to move the resources to the website, but the representatives can not decide in between Little Rock or Cadron (now Conway ), which was the preferred site of Territorial Guv James Miller The concern was tabled until October 1820, by which time the majority of the lawmakers and other significant men had bought whole lots around Little Rock.