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We would like to provide the residents of  Martins Creek  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Martins Creek Home page. The Martins Creek Home page provides as much information as possible on Martins Creek. Knowing Martins Creek’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Martins Creek’s Home page, you will also find Martins Creek’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Martins Creek has a population of 457. 46.4% of Martins Creek’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.6 are female. 58.2% of Martins Creek is married and 75% own their own home. The Average Home price is $174,426. Household median income in Martins Creek is $36,768, and the individual median income is $27,321. Martins Creek’s Ethnic is the following: White(98.5%), Multiple(1.5%).


Circa 1730, a number of Scotch-Irish settled in a part of the town called Hunter's Settlement. Martin's Creek was first settled by Robert Lyle in 1741, with James Martin arriving around 1747. 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.By the 1800s, the area had developed the name of Flatfield because of its level terrain.


By the time of the Civil War, it was known as Martinsville, and later changed to Martin's Creek.In 1939, exiled Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky married Australian journalist Lydia Ellen Tritton in Martins Creek.


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