Cooper School is a historic

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building for African-American students located near Mebane,

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. It was built about 1900, and is a one-story, three-bay, frame building. It has a tin gable-front roof and is sheathed in plain weatherboard. The school continued to operate until 1907 when a larger educational facility, the Oaks School, was built nearby. It was added to the

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in 1986.

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