C.F. Martin & Co., Inc. (Martin family): brand owner behind Martin

Company

Plants it ran, and the brands built there

C.F. Martin & Co., Inc. (Martin family) ran 5 plants on record. The brands below were built at those plants, whoever owned the name.

Plant	Ran it	Brands built there
Martin NYC shop New York, NY, USA^[2]	1833–1839^[3]	Martin Martin USA (Nazareth) · 1833–1839^[3]
Martin Nazareth homestead tract Nazareth, PA, USA^{no source}	1839–1859^{[3, 4]}	Martin Martin USA (Nazareth) · 1838–1859^{[4, 3]}
Martin North Street plant (NRHP) Nazareth, PA, USA^[2]	1859–1964^{[5, 6]}	Martin Martin USA (Nazareth) · 1850–1964^{[6, 5]}
Martin 510 Sycamore Street Nazareth, PA, USA^[2]	1964–now^{[6, 7]}	Martin Martin USA (Nazareth) · 1955–now^{[7, 6]}
Martin Navojoa Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico^{no source}	1990–now^[6]	Martin Martin Backpacker (Mexico), Martin DXM (Mexico) · 1990–now^[6]

Years	Brand	How	Source
1833–now	Martin	owns	community^{[3, 8, 9, 10, 11]}

Years

Brand

How

Source

1833–now

Martin

owns

community^{[3, 8, 9, 10, 11]}

Eras as owner

6 eras under this owner. One owner can span several plants, so “owned by C.F. Martin & Co., Inc. (Martin family)” is not one thing either.

Years	Line	Plant
1833–1839^{[3, 8, 9, 10, 11]}	Martin USA (Nazareth)	Martin NYC shop
1839–1859^{[3, 8, 9, 10, 11]}	Martin USA (Nazareth)	Martin Nazareth homestead tract
1859–1964^{[3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 5]}	Martin USA (Nazareth)	Martin North Street plant (NRHP)
1964–now^{[3, 8, 9, 10, 11, ]}

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

LEI record, C. F. MARTIN & CO., INC.graded secondary

Registration Authority Entity ID 220860 Entity Legal Form Code Business Corporation (3JTE) Entity Category GENERAL Entity Status ACTIVE Entity Creation Date 1921-01-18C.F. Martin & Co., Inc. (Martin family), kind and country

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: C.F. Martin & Co.graded primary

opened a guitar shop at 196 Hudson StreetMartin NYC shop, location
10 W. North Street and 201 N. Main StreetMartin North Street plant (NRHP), location
the company’s 1964 facility at 510 Sycamore StreetMartin 510 Sycamore Street, location

Wikipedia: wiki/C. F. Martin %26 Companygraded community

"relocated to Nazareth… in 1839"Ran Martin NYC shop, 1833–1839
"run by the same family for six generations"Martin, owns, 1833–now

moravianmusic: topics of interest/martin c f guitarsgraded secondary

"In 1838… purchased an eight-acre tract"Ran Martin Nazareth homestead tract, 1839–1859

bluegrasstoday: original martin factory added to national register of historic placesgraded secondary

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C.F. Martin & Co., Inc. (Martin family)

Plants it ran, and the brands built there

Brands controlled

Eras as owner

Sources