The Climber Motor Company was a Little Rock, Arkansas, automobile manufacturer that built about two hundred cars and seventy-five trucks in the early 1920s. The company advertised the durability of their cars by publicizing road tests of 20,000 miles on Arkansas backcountry roads. The only two known extant Climber Cars are on display at the Museum of Automobiles on Petit Jean Mountain.

As many as fifteen separate National Historic Register Districts make up the Quapaw Quarter, including more than 200 separate homes and buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. Trapnall Hall, the home of early state legislator Frederic Trapnall, along East Capitol Avenue, was among the first Little Rock homes built in 1843.

The ESSE Purse Museum is the only brick-and-mortar purse museum in the United States. Exhibits feature women's handbags and the day-to-day items carried in them, illustrating the stories of American women's lives during the 1900s.

In 1987, Lottie Shackelford became the first woman elected Mayor of Little Rock. Six years later, President Bill Clinton appointed her to the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, making her the first African American woman to serve on that Board. She also has the distinction of having the longest tenure as Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, having served for 20 years.

There is no official term for Little Rock residents. Some prefer "Little Rockian," while others use the slightly more adorable "Little Rocker."