Hedwigs Hill is an unincorporated farming and ranching community, established in 1853, just off U.S. Highway 87, located 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Art in southern Mason County, Texas, United States.

[3] Hedwigs Hill was settled by German settlers Christopher Voges and Louis (Ludwig) Martin, who emigrated to Texas with the Adelsverein groups.

In 1853 the Martin family moved 10 miles (16 km) south of what is now Mason, on the banks of the Llano River.

[5] John Kline was another early settler, who is thought to have built the dogtrot house later occupied by Louis Martin.

His nephew Charles Karl Martin became postmaster on August 21, 1861, after Texas had joined the Confederate States of America.

On June 16, 1864, on a freight hauling trip to Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Louis Martin and his niece's husband Eugene Frantzen had gold hidden beneath a load of bacon.

She eventually acquired 50,000 acres in Mason, Llano and Gillespie Counties, at the time making her one of the wealthiest Texans of German ancestry.