Watts and Hill started Durham Loan & Trust Company and Home Savings Bank.
[2] In 1964, architect Frank DePasquale wanted to put a tobacco leaf on the new CCB sign to go atop the Hill Building.
Harlan Laws Corp. "fabricated the letters in sections from steel and had them coated with white porcelain to protect against rust.
"[3] The parts for the sign went up after regular business hours in elevators that only reached the 14th floor, and workers used ropes and pulleys to lift them the rest of the way, 270 feet above the street.
[3] In the 1970s, CCB had an operations center stationed in the BC Remedy Building in Durham, North Carolina, currently owned by Measurement Incorporated.
In 1997, CCB announced a merger with 76-year-old American Federal Bank of Greenville, South Carolina, with 40 offices and $1.3 billion in assets.
[4] CCB had 208 branches and $8.2 billion in assets in March 2000[5] when National Commerce Bancorporation (NCBC) of Memphis, Tennessee, parent of National Bank of Commerce, announced a $1.94 billion purchase of CCB which was described as "a merger of equals", though NCBC would be the surviving corporation.
As a result of the First Union-Wachovia merger, 25 branches of the former First Union and Wachovia banks became CCB locations on February 15, 2002.
On July 19, 2004, the merging banks announced SunTrust would have 254 branches and 1900 employees in its Carolinas group, to be based in Durham and covering the same territory as CCB before the NCF merger.
The Carolinas group would be the fourth SunTrust territory; the others were Atlanta, Richmond and Washington, D.C. Also announced at that time were the fates of NCF's major executives.
Scott Edwards, chief administrative officer, would become head of credit for the Carolinas and be based in Durham.