There are three heritage sites very close to each other on the N10 near Cookhouse.

The first is a small stone pyramid, Pringle Party Memorial.

The plaque on the memorial reads:
THE SCOTTISH PARTY OF 1820 SETTLERS LED BY
THOMAS PRINGLE CHANGED WAGONS, DRIVERS
AND OXEN AT ROODEWAL MILITARY CAMP
IN THIS VICINITY AND AFTER A REST OF TWO DAYS
CROSSED THE GREAT FISH RIVER NEAR HERE
AND PROCEEDED ON THEIR JOURNEY
TO THEIR SETTLEMENT IN THE
BAVIAANS RIVER VALLEY

Located right next to the Pringle Party Memorial is a railway sleeper with a plaque pointing out the site of Fort Roodewal.

The transcript on the plaque reads as follows:
This is the terrain of Fort Roodewal from where the grandson of a French Huguenot, Lt. Frans Rousseau, who was in command of the post, left on the morning of the 9th of October 1815 with 8 "pandoere" (Cape Coloured soldiers) to arrest Freek Bezuidenhout. Little did the young Lieutenant know that the order he gave the next day to shoot Freek Bezuidenhout after he resisted arrest, would be the beginning of one of the most unfortunate incidents in the history of South Africa; The Slachtersnek Rebellion

Alongside the Pringle Party Memorial and the Fort Roodewal beacon is a third memorial site. The gravestone of Frans Johannes van Aardt.  Van Aardt farmed on the farm Roodewal on the west bank of the Great Fish River and it was on this farm that the town of Cookhouse later developed. His first wife, Susanna Wilhelmina Tregardt was the sister of the Great Trek leader Louis Tregardt and she operated the cook house for British soldiers at the Roodewal Post.  It was from this cook house that the town got its name.