Siloam is an unincorporated community in southeastern Surry County, North Carolina, United States.

[4] The Atkinson-Needham Memorial Bridge, which was built at the site of the old bridge, was named in honor of the four victims – Samuel Hugh and Ola Marion Atkinson and Judy Needham and her 3-year-old daughter, Andrea Lee.

[5] Among those rescued from the collapse was future Surry County Sheriff Graham Atkinson, who was 10 at the time.

[7] By the 1970s, state officials had hung a sign on the second-hand bridge that read, "Local Traffic Only."

Troy Doby, the state secretary of transportation, said later that "it should have been replaced, but it was a question of money."

Weeks before the collapse, Hugh Atkinson had urged state officials to tear it down.

The Atkinson family later found a letter in his coat pocket that he had written to the governor's office urging action on the bridge.