What is the setting of The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck?

The majority of the novel is set in New Baytown, a small coastal town in New England America, during the short period of Easter weekend to the 4th of July weekend in 1960. The town is an old whaling seaport that has declined in prosperity over the years. The streets have common names, and the townspeople are mostly descendants of whalers and merchants from the previous century.