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  • After high school, Moses attended the then-all male Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Returning to Little Rock and Moses Melody Shop in 1 ...the family Volvo station wagon to study urban and regional planning at the University of Florida at Gainesville. He later remembered thinking: "I was never comin
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  • ...nd industrial brownfield areas along both the north and south banks of the Arkansas River, expand the [[Statehouse Convention Center]] on Markham Street, and b He is the originator of [[Arkansas Commitment]], a college preparation and scholarship consortium for promisin
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  • The '''Arkansas Economic Development Commission''' (AEDC) is charged with the task of promo Divisions of the commission include the [[Arkansas Energy Office]] and the [[Training Division]]. Steve Sparks is director of
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  • ...st of the I-40 ramp and [[River Market District]] on the south bank of the Arkansas River in Little Rock. ...de" for its color, shape, and association with a president from small-town Arkansas. The Library is essentially a long, rectangular box elevated forty feet off
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  • ...aul Rockefeller Sr.''' was a philanthropist and governor of the [[State of Arkansas]] from 1967 to 1971. ...found formal education difficult, suffering from dyslexia. He entered Yale University but later dropped out to work in the Texas oil fields as a roughneck.
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  • ...throp P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute]]. UAMS is part of the University of Arkansas system. ...g|thumb|300px|Postcard view of the School of Medicine of the University of Arkansas (now UAMS).]]
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  • '''Junius Marion Futrell''' was governor of the State of Arkansas from March 13, 1913, to July 23, 1913, and again from January 10, 1933, to ...ried Tera A. Smith in 1893. In 1896 he was elected representative to the [[Arkansas General Assembly]]. He served two more terms in 1900 and 1902. Between 1906
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  • ...cal Department of Arkansas Industrial University]], chief physician at the Arkansas state penitentiary, and health officer of the [[City of Little Rock]]. His *''Goodspeed's History of Pulaski County, Arkansas'' (1889).
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  • ...s''' (originally known as the '''Medical Department of Arkansas Industrial University''') was founded in September 1879 in the old [[Sperindio Hotel]] located at ...er as the University of Arkansas Medical Center (UAMC) and [[University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences]] (UAMS).
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  • The project's roots lay in the [[Main Street 1969 plan]] created by the [[Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects]] in the spring of 1957. Th ...ve director [[George Millar Jr.]] purchased sixty-five properties in the [[University Park]] (1961) neighborhood for another $832,486.
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  • ...up in Corpus Christi. He is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Industrial University at Kingsville. While in college he began working for the ''Corpus Christi C ...hip': Race, Urban Development and Little Rock's Gillam Park, 1934-2004," ''Arkansas Historical Quarterly'' 64.3 (Autumn 2005): 278.
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  • ...oved sewer and water lines, (5) a black community center, (6) needed zoned-industrial land, (7) eight hundred new homes, and (4) one thousand rental units. ...sing-Santa Claus." Wrote one resident in his letter to the editor of the ''Arkansas Gazette,'' "I say give an uneducated person a million dollars and soon he w
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  • ...city leader who helped bring the [[Little Rock Air Force Base]] to central Arkansas in the 1950s. Tucker attended Washington and Lee University. During the [[Little Rock Crisis]] of 1957 he was a moderate segregationist
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  • ...and swimming pool pump manufacturer with industrial plant in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was known locally as one of the first major industries to enter the mar ...' eds. Elizabeth Jacoway and C. Fred Williams (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999), 107-173.
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  • '''Schools''' are found everywhere in central Arkansas. *[[Arkansas Christian College]] (historical)
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  • '''Shopping centers''' dot the landscape of central Arkansas. *Industrial Plaza Shopping Center
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  • '''Thomas Clark Trimble Jr.''' was a lawyer and partner in the [[Lonoke]], Arkansas, firms [[Trimble & Trimble]] and [[Trimble & Williams]]. Trimble was born in Lonoke in 1879. He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convent
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  • ...f the [[Medical Department of the University of Arkansas]] in Little Rock, Arkansas. ...riefly to Norfolk before emigrating to Memphis and then Crittenden County, Arkansas. In 1872 he arrived in Little Rock.
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  • ...oration''' is a high tech company headquartered in Little Rock and Conway, Arkansas. ..., the company must be count to the most successful companies originated in Arkansas (see Wal Mart, Tyson, etc) and has experienced an immense growth in the pas
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