The only story by a well known author I know set in my little town in Massachusetts is by H.P. Lovecraft. But he places the town about 50 miles away from where

The only story by a well known author I know set in my little town in Massachusetts is by H.P. Lovecraft. But he places the town about 50 miles away from where it really is, and the description he gives of the downtown area is way, way wrong- cobblestone streets and brick buildings, when at that time the town was dirt roads and farm houses. I've always wondered if he simply didn't know the town actually existed, as he used a few different non-existent Massachusetts towns in his writing and he could have thought he was doing it again here.