This area was also a center of the Christian side of the Congregational Christian denomination. This link is for you if you wish to research your property or an ancester's homestead. Population centers in Old Colony Association include New Bedford and Fall River, each with about 100,000 in population. Smaller centers of population include the Attleboro and Taunton areas. These were all thriving industrial centers which have endured economic downturn and are struggling to fashion new identities.
Smaller towns dot the countryside and some of the seaside towns support sizable boating populations.
In addition there are large rural areas with a scattering of farms producing a significant cranberry crop. The common feature in all aspects of our church and association is diversity . There is diversity of city, town and village . There is diversity in the style of our churches and in theological perpesctive . Yet, in this diversity we work to strengthen each other for our common mission.