POWER OF ATTORNEY
                                
     KNOW  ALL  MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of CCB Financial
Corporation,  and the several undersigned officers and  directors
thereof  whose signatures appear below hereby makes,  constitutes
and  appoints  Ernest C. Roessler and W. Harold  Parker,  Jr.  or
either  of  them,  its and his or her true and lawful  attorneys,
with  full power of substitution to execute, deliver and file  in
its,  his or her name and on its, his or her behalf, and in  each
of   the   undersigned  Officer's  and  Director's  capacity   or
capacities as shown below, (a) Registration Statements on Form S-
8  (or  other  appropriate form) with respect to the registration
under  the  Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of the shares  of
Common  Stock of CCB Financial Corporation, par value  $5.00  per
share,  and  the related Series A Junior Participating  Preferred
Stock  Purchase Rights to be issued pursuant to the CCB Financial
Corporation Long-Term Incentive Plan and all documents in support
thereof  or  supplemental  thereto and any  and  all  amendments,
including any and all post-effective amendments, to the foregoing
(hereinafter  called  the  "Registration  Statement"),  (b)  such
registration  statements,  petitions, applications,  consents  to
service of process or other instruments, any and all documents in
support  thereof  or  supplemental  thereto,  and  any  and   all
amendments  or supplements to the foregoing, as may be  necessary
or  advisable  to qualify or register the securities  covered  by
said  Registration  Statement; each of CCB Financial  Corporation
and  said Officers and Directors hereby grants to said attorneys,
or  any of them, full power and authority to do and perform  each
and  every  act  and thing whatsoever as said attorney  may  deem
necessary  or  advisable to carry out fully the  intent  of  this
power of attorney to the same extent and with the same effect  as
CCB  Financial Corporation might or could do, and in each of said
capacity  or  capacities as aforesaid; and each of CCB  Financial
Corporation  and said Officers and Directors hereby ratifies  and
confirms  all acts and things which said attorneys  might  do  or
cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and its, his
or  her signatures as the same may be signed by said attorneys to
any  of  all  of  such  Registration Statement  filed  under  the
Securities  Act  of  1933, as amended, and all such  registration
statements,  petitions,  applications,  consents  to  service  of
process  and  other  instruments, and any and  all  documents  in
support  thereof  or  amendatory or supplemental  thereto,  filed
under  such securities laws, regulations and requirements as  may
be applicable.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, CCB Financial Corporation has caused
this power of attorney to be signed on its behalf, and each of
the undersigned Officers and Directors in the capacity or
capacities noted has hereunto set his or her hand on the date
indicated below.

                                CCB FINANCIAL CORPORATION
                                
                                By: /s/ ERNEST C. ROESSLER
                                    Ernest C. Roessler
                                    Vice Chairman, President and
                                    Chief Executive Officer

                               Dated:  March 10,  1998
                               

/s/ ERNEST C. ROESSLER        Vice Chairman and President March 10, 1998
Ernest C. Roessler            (Chief Executive Officer)


/s/ WILLIAM L. ABERCROMBIE, JR.Vice Chairman             March 10, 1998
William L. Abercrombie, Jr.


/s/ JOHN M. BARNHARDT          Director                  March 10, 1998
John M. Barnhardt


/s/ J. HARPER BEALL, III       Director                  March 10, 1998
J. Harper Beall, III


/s/ JAMES B. BRAME, JR.        Director                  March 10, 1998
James B. Brame, Jr.


/s/ TIMOTHY B. BURNETT         Director                  March 10, 1998
Timothy B. Burnett


/s/ W. L. BURNS, JR.           Chairman of the           March 10, 1998
W. L. Burns, Jr.               Board of Directors


/s/ BLAKE P. GARRETT, JR.      Director                  March 10, 1998
Blake P. Garrett, Jr.



                               Director                  March ___, 1998
Edward S. Holmes


                               Director                  March ___, 1998
Bonnie McElveen-Hunter


                               Vice Chairman             March ___, 1998
David B. Jordan


                               Director                  March ___, 1998
C. Dan Joyner


/s/ OWEN G. KENAN              Director                  March 10, 1998
Owen G. Kenan


                               Director                  March ___, 1998
Eugene J. McDonald


/s/ HAMILTON W. MCKAY, JR.     Director                  March 10, 1998
Hamilton W. McKay, Jr., M.D.


                               Director                  March ___, 1998
George J. Morrow


/s/ ERIC B. MUNSON             Director                  March 10, 1998
Eric B. Munson


                               Director                  March ___, 1998
Dr. David E. Shi


/s/ MILES J. SMITH, JR.        Director                  March 10, 1998
Miles J. Smith, Jr.


                               Director                  March ___, 1998
Jimmy K. Stegall


/s/ H. ALLEN TATE, JR.         Director                  March 10, 1998
H. Allen Tate, Jr.



/s/ JAMES L. WILLIAMSON       Director                   March 10, 1998
James L. Williamson


/s/ PHAIL WYNN, JR.           Director                   March 10, 1998
Dr. Phail Wynn, Jr.


/s/ ROBERT L. SAVAGE, JR.     Senior Vice President     March 10, 1998
Robert L. Savage, Jr.         and Chief Financial
                              Officer

/s/ W. HAROLD PARKER, JR.     Senior Vice President     March 10, 1998
W. Harold Parker, Jr.         and Controller (Chief
                              Accounting Officer)