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

As the county seat of Pulaski Area, the city was included on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River near to the state's geographical center in Central Arkansas The city acquired its name from a rock formation along the river, named the "Little Rock, Arkansas Potholes Rock" (le petit rocher) by the French traveler Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in 1722.

One of the state's biggest public companies, with over 10,552 workers, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and its medical care companions-- Arkansas Kid's Medical facility and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System-- have an overall yearly financial influence in Arkansas of about $5 billion.

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