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The hamlet was officially founded in 1137 by Suger, abbot of Saint-Denis in the twelfth century, to increase land and income from Abbey. Located on the sides of the Seine Valley, Carrières-Saint-Denis in fact offered land alluvial good, very fertile, and a limestone of good quality: the tying. The hamlet also taken the name of Carrières-Saint-Denis because of the many limestone quarries that were used until the nineteenth century.

Still under the tutelage of the Abbey of Saint-Denis, however, the village won autonomy with respect to its neighbors as Montesson or Houilles and saw its territory claimed by the minutes of 1479, 1633 and 1728. Carrières-Saint-Denis was hunting place of kings Henry II and Henry IV, and under the Old Regime, place of residence assumed Louise de la Vallière, favorite of Louis XIV, according to a persistent oral tradition.

An edict of June 1787 built the parish of Carrières-Saint-Denis in municipality and finally, the law of 10 June 1791 prescribing the alienation of communal property of the Church, finished separating the village from the Abbey of Saint-Denis . For the first time, Carrières-Saint-Denis took the name Carrières-sur-Seine in the early of the twentieth century.