Cradock boasts fine architecture and a number of important monuments and museums. The area was considered strategically important by the early 19th Century settlers and this is reflected in the town's many well preserved buildings.Olive Schreiner, international renowned for especially her seminal work, The Story of an African Farm, lived with her siblings in Cradock from 1868 to 1870 in the house shown below. Today it is a satellite museum of the National English Literary Museum.