The village takes its name from the Church which was originally dedicated to Saint-Martin. The inhabitants of Dommartin were formerly referred to as Picosés. According to oral tradition, when food shortages starved the country before the Revolution, the inhabitants of Dommartin, reduced to eating grass, crossed the Moselle to pick sorrel in the Celles valley.

Located at the confluence of the Moselle and Moselotte valleys, five kilometers upstream from Remiremont, the commune of Dommartin-lès-Remiremont was administratively constituted during the Revolution from the territories of the former communities of Franould, La Poirie, Vecoux and Reherrey, sitting on the ban of Longchamp, and of the former community of Pont included in the ban of Moulin but united to the previous ones by parochial and forestry interests. The banns were under the Ancien Régime administrative and territorial districts over which the Chapter of Remiremont exercised its seigniorial rights.

But the history of the town goes back to much older times since several discoveries of prehistoric objects have been made on its territory. In 1970, a crushing pebble and several cores were discovered on the property of Mr. Pernet, in Le Cuchot. In 1976, a prehistoric ax was unearthed by Mr. Kelbert in his garden near the old Dommartin station. Still near the old station, we found traces of a Gallo-Roman station at the beginning of the century. Debris of very old sculptures was discovered there, including a lion's head, various pottery, a fragment of a millstone for crushing grain and various foundations.

According to tradition, Louis le Débonnaire, son of Charlemagne, who took the monastery of Saint-Mont under his protection and who made frequent stays in Remiremont, would have had a hunting lodge at the Granges de Franould. The name of Grange Louis, given to a farm in this gap, would come from this presence. This farm still belonged on the eve of the Revolution to the priory of Saint-Mont and was sold as national property.