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On Feb. 4, 1884, a construction engineer named L.D. McGlashan anchored a barge in the Arkansas River near the rock for which Little Rock was named. Construction was beginning for a railroad crossing known as the Junction Bridge. The bridge, which required removal of part of the rock, was completed in December 1884.
300 years ago an explorer discovered a small rock outcropping in the Arkansas River. He called it "La Petite Roche," or "The Little Rock," and the name has stuck.
Officials gathered by the Arkansas River on Saturday morning to mark 300 years of history and progress since a French explorer traveled up the waterway in 1722.
Jean-Baptiste Benard de La Harpe was born into a wealthy French family known for having the finest ships in its part of the country. Born in 1683, La Harpe was one of 12 surviving children in his family and became an explorer at an early age. He served as a cavalry officer in Spain, and in 1703 departed on an exploration mission to South America.