In approximately 1730, a number of Scotch-Irish settled in a part of the town called Hunter's Settlement.

Martin operated a grist mill, and later served as a colonel in the American Revolution.

In 1744, missionary David Brainerd began his work here with the Clistowackin band of Lenape Indians.

[5] In 1939, exiled Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky married Australian journalist Lydia Ellen Tritton in Martins Creek.

[6] In 1942, an explosion at the Lehigh Portland Cement Co. plant in nearby Sandts Eddy killed 31 people.