The Silver Heron, located
in The Mall in Columbia, has been in business since 1985. The owner
of The Silver Heron comes from a family of jewelers going back to 1974;
she herself worked as a silversmith in Minnesota. It was in Minnesota
that she sat at the edge of a lake thinking of opening her own silver
shop when a great heron flew down and perched itself in front of her
at the water's edge. Thus the Silver Heron was conceived.