 The town's first economy was livestock and leather based and it supplied secondary products such as shows, gloves and meat throughout the region.The main route from Boston to New York, called "The Country Road," in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, went through Greenwich (later becoming U.S. Route 1), but it was a very rocky, hilly—even precipitous—route until improvements were made in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.Many travelers recorded their experiences in diaries or books.