Mico Men's Teacher Training College, Jamaica, ca.1875-ca.1940

Photograph of the exterior of a Mico Teacher Training College for men. Mico is a teacher training institution which began in 1835 when four teacher training institutions and hundreds of elementary schools were established in the British Colonies. The only teacher training institution to survive into the 20th Century was The Mico University College in Kingston, Jamaica.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jamaica. In 1800 the Scottish Missionary Society sent three missionaries to Jamaica. Two died of yellow fever within weeks of arrival but the third became a pioneer missionary. In 1824 a second venture travelled to Jamaica by invitation of local planters to instruct their slaves. Scottish missionaries worked at Montego Bay in the 19th century and in 1836 the first presbytery of the Jamaican Church was constituted here.