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Battle Memorial likewise holds the Arkansas Senior high school football state champions, and starting in the autumn of 2006 hosts one video game apiece for the College of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Arkansas State University additionally plays at the arena periodically.

As the area seat of Pulaski Region, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south financial institution 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, named the "Little Rock" (le petit rocher) by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in 1722.

Among the state's largest public employers, Bookmarks with over 10,552 employees, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its medical care partners-- Arkansas Kid's Hospital and the Central Arkansas Veterans Medical Care System-- have a complete annual financial effect in Arkansas of about $5 billion.

Little Rock is home to the Arkansas Travelers They are the AA expert Minor League Baseball affiliate 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 right into Dickey-Stephens Park in neighboring North Little Rock in April 2007.