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Fellowships: About Little Rock
Since the 1970's home of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton.
Home of one of the world's fastest growing food franchise, TCBY
Home of one of the nation's leading department stores, Dillards
International headquarters of Jacuzzi Brothers
All Maybelline products distributed in the United States are manufactured at the Galloway Industrial Park Plant
Home of one of the leading producers of banking software, ALLTEL Information Systems
Home of the largest investment house in the United States off Wall Street, Stephens Inc.
The Villa Marre, the home which was used as the office for the Sugarbakers in the CBS television series "Designing Women" is located in the Quapaw Quarter of Little Rock
North Little Rock's "Old
Mill"* was seen in the opening credits of the classic "Gone with the
Wind"
North Little Rock's Burns Park is the second largest municipal park in the nation, behind Manhattan Central Park
Memorial Day's Riverfest is listed as one of the top 100 events in North America
The Arkansas Arts Center has one of the finest collections of drawings in the nation
Little Rock is the birth place of General Douglas MacArthur
Little Rock is the home of celebrities such as Mary Steenburgen (Academy Award Winning Actress), Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers), Frank Bonner (WKRP in Cincinnati), Brooks Robinson (Baltimore Orioles), Sidney Moncrief (Milwaukee Bucks), Dan Hamilton (Chicago Bears)and Geese Ausbie (Harlem Globetrotters)
The Little Rock Air Force Base has the largest C-130 training and airlift facility in the world
The Arkansas River at Downtown Little Rock offers some of the best bass fishing in the country
The columns in Little Rock's historic Capital
Hotel* were marbleized by the same people that did Buckingham Palace
I-630 is one of few Interstate Highways in the nation complete through an existing downtown
The McClellan-Kerr Navigation System in the Arkansas River which joins North Little Rock and Little Rock is one of the largest water development projects in the nation's history
The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce is one of the oldest chamber's west of the Mississippi River, founded in 1866
Little Rock's TCBY Tower is the tallest building between St. Louis and Dallas
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