The Charlestown Bridge (also called the North Washington Street Bridge) is located in Boston and spans the Charles River. As the river's easternmost crossing, the bridge connects the neighborhoods of Charlestown and the North End. Completed in 1900, the bridge carries a portion of the Freedom Trail linking to the USS Constitution and Bunker Hill. To the north, the Charlestown bridge connects to Rutherford Avenue; to the south it connects with North Washington Street. (With the pending renovation of the bridge anticipated to start in Autumn 2017, there has been discussion of changing the name of the bridge to the Cornelius F. Regan or Regan Bridge. This is in honor of patrolman Cornelius F. Regan, who was killed in the line of duty 1/13/1898. He died of injuries sustained while saving some