The Boilermaker Road Race, a 15K road race, began in 1978 with 876 runners to celebrate Utica Boiler's 50th anniversary and has grown into a week-long event drawing over 20,000 participants, spectators, and volunteers.
The "boilermaker" drink, a whiskey shot chased with beer, likely got its name from the popularity of the drink among 19th-century boilermakers, the tradesmen who fabricated iron boilers
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