Tulip

The Encyclopedia of Arkansas passes along Tulip's capital story with doubt. Its Tulip entry says the town allegedly missed the honor by a few votes, and a separate entry lists Tulip beside Roseville, Rockport and Old Austin among places said to have missed it by one vote, calling such claims a little more spurious than the documented moves. The town's real run was 1842 to 1862. It began as Brownsville, for Tyre Harris Brown, then became Smithville for Colonel Maurice Smith, who is said to have remarked that more tulip trees than Smiths grew there.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garvan Woodland Gardens — 33 mi
  A 210-acre botanical garden on a Lake Hamilton peninsula that one gardener built over thirty years and left to the University of Arkansas.

More markers nearby

• Arkansas Military Institute — steps away
• Tulip in the Civil War — steps away
• Skirmish at Guesses Creek — 4.8 mi
• Officers Killed — 7.7 mi