Niagara Falls was not "come up with" by a person, but rather formed naturally by geological forces about 12,500 years ago as the Wisconsin glacier receded. However, in terms of "discovery" by Europeans, the first to document the falls was the French priest Father Louis Hennepin in 1678. He was so overwhelmed by the sight that he provided the first written eyewitness description of the falls to the Western world, though it is widely acknowledged that the Indigenous peoples of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Anishinaabe had lived near and revered the falls for thousands of years before his arrival. In the 19th century, the falls were "branded" as a world-class tourist destination by figures like Peter Porter and the New York Central Railroad, who promoted it as the premier honeymoon spot. While Mother Nature created the waterfalls, it was a combination of French explorers, local entrepreneurs, and the industrial chemist Hugh Lee Pattinson (who took the first photograph of the falls in 1840) that "put them on the map" as the global icon we recognize today.