Mar 9, 2013

Stirring up Sweet SuccessBy Mary Carr MayleSavannahNow.com

Savannah, GA – It began simply enough in 1973 when Georgia Nash and her daughter, Pamela Strickland, decided to open a small gift shop in downtown Savannah.

Boldly choosing a River Street location at a time when the cobblestoned waterfront was still mostly vacant or consisted of abandoned warehouses, the two budding entrepreneurs christened their enterprise The Cotton Bale, opening on St. Patrick’s Day and filling it with Habersham Plantation Furniture, Georgia gift products and Christmas ornaments.

Four decades later, that little gift shop is still in the family. But today it’s known as River Street Sweets, a name synonymous with such rich Southern treats as pralines and glazed pecans. And it’s grown from that one shop on River Street to eight locations — including two each in Atlanta, Charleston and Myrtle Beach — plus a production and mail order facility that ships across the globe.

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