Diensberg

was, according to Will Johnson, a "small Massachusetts town". It was the place to which he ostensibly returned after having gone to West Point and then immediate service in the American Civil War. After the war, he ostensibly returned there to marry Claire Bartlett — a local schoolteacher — and to take up a job as the manager of the town's steelworks.

Both Johnson and Bartlett's families were also resident in the town. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)

Behind the scenes
is not a real American location.