Hand's Cove is a historically significant geographic feature on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain in Shoreham, Vermont.
It was from this area that colonial forces led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold crossed the lake for the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, early in the American Revolutionary War.
[1] Hand's Cove is an inlet on the east side of Lake Champlain, a short way north of Larrabee's Point in southwestern Shoreham.
One is a blockhouse of uncertain construction date, built in part out of heavy beams laid on top of one another, and joined at the corners by dovetail joints.
Now augmented by a number of additions and farm outbuildings, it was probably built by Nathan Hand's son Samuel, who succeeded his father in ownership of the property.