[1] In 1835, Levi H. Goodrich, and two of his six sons, Enos and Moses, moved from Erie County, New York and purchased 1,000 acres of land along the Kearsley Creek.

The village grew slowly during the latter part of the 19th century, adding small manufacturing and becoming a stagecoach stop.

In 1877, a group of village women founded the Goodrich Ladies' Library Association and purchased a building on Main Street.

In 1916, a fire destroyed a row of frame buildings on Main Street and anew brick commercial block was constructed.

Ten of these twenty structures are residential, four are institutional (two libraries, one post office, and one fire station), and six are commercial.