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  • ...e Arsenal had for some time been a site of recreation. The first organized local baseball game was played on the grounds of the Arsenal on May 6, 1867, a ma ...e site a [[City of Little Rock]] park in perpetuity. In return the federal government received 1,000 acres of land in North Little Rock on Big Rock Mountain wher
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  • ...rk, and GPS cache hunt site. The park is named for [[William M. Burns]], a local physician and former mayor. The land was donated to the [[City of North Little Rock]] by the federal government in 1948. The park remained largely undeveloped at its dedication on Septemb
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  • ...and "[[La Grande Roche]]" (the "Big Rock"). De la Harpe traded goods with local [[Quapaw Indians]]. The Quapaw (Ugahxpa, or "Downstream People") are a Nati ...[[Pyeattstown]]. In 1820 [[Cadron Settlement]] became the official seat of government in the county. That same year the U.S. Post Office established mail service
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  • ...ould be created by removing the clutter of overhanging retail signage. The local paper in a 1959 editorial called the plan "dreamlike." ...e country, a sports center and marina along the Arkansas River, a downtown local and interurban bus terminal, a convention center, a Variety Lane pedestrian
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  • ...]] building escalators were refurbished to enhance the mall as a nostalgic local landmark. ...nly Main Street reopened to traffic. The old mall is now occupied by state government agencies.
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  • [[Category:Local government]]
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  • ...arce that the [[Arkansas State Library]] was ransacked for spare material. Local foundries were enlisted to make grapeshot, and prisoners in the [[Arkansas ...islature to disband, and resulting in Governor Rector's establishment of a government in exile in Jackson, Mississippi. Most manufacturing was relocated to more
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  • ...Urban Progress Association''' was a public-private partnership founded by local private enterprise working with the city manager, city board of directors, ...May 31, 1959, two years after the [[City of Little Rock]] reorganized its government from a mayor-city council form to city manager-city board of directors. Abo
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  • '''Little Rock City Hall''' is the seat of government of the [[City of Little Rock]]. ...current City Hall, at the corner of Markham and Broadway, was designed by local architect [[Charles L. Thompson]] in the Classic Revival style and opened o
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  • ...ouncil''' is a public-private partnership between local businesspeople and government officials in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The organization, founded in Febr
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  • ...Little Rock]]. She is tasked with managing the financial affairs of local government operations, aiding economic development and recruiting efforts and administ
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  • ...LRHA), [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]] the [[City of Little Rock]], and local architects. LRHA executive director [[Dowell Naylor Jr.]] was the chief aut ...strock]] (1956), and $2.5 million in the [[East End neighborhood]] (1956). Local dollars supported an additional [[High Street Urban Renewal project]] on 28
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  • ...''Citizens Coach Company''' (CCC) was formed as a compromise between local government officials in Little Rock and national union leaders of the Amalgamated Asso ...hn Transportation Company (SJTC). In 1972 TCT passed into the hands of the local governments, and became the publicly-owned [[Central Arkansas Transit]] (CA
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  • ...sis]]. Moses and Allen took their organization's pitch everywhere, to city government offices, to churches and clubs, and into the workrooms other nonprofits. Th ...the polls and by a 57 percent to 43 percent margin rejected two half-cent local sales tax increases earmarked for capital improvements and city programs. [
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  • In 1950 members of the LRHA pushed local citizens to match a local bond issue for improvements to black-only [[Gillam Park]] to "urban renewal ...ilions, baseball diamond, and small amusement park. In return, the federal government supplied $3 million funds for the [[Booker Homes]] project in the [[Granite
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  • Debate over local urban renewal and its funding was vigorous, rivaling the debate over integr ...ilions, baseball diamond, and small amusement park. In return, the federal government supplied $3 million funds for the Booker Homes project in the Granite Mount
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  • ..., [[South End]], [[Broadway]], and [[Livestock showgrounds neighborhood]]. Local fire chief [[Gann L. Nalley]] noted 344 fires in these neighborhood in only ...le I of the Housing Act of 1949. The local funding match would come from a local bond issue for $359,000 in improvements to black-only [[Gillam Park]] and o
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  • The '''Student Government Association''' of the [[University of Central Arkansas]], SGA, represents t * Constitution revised and amended by Student Government and the student body
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  • ''[[UCA Student Government Association|Student Government Association (SGA)]]'' The Student Government Association ([[SGA]]) represents the student body in allocating and adminis
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  • ====Government==== Other notable local businesses:
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