Who discovered maple syrup?

A maple farmer must wait 40 years for his trees to yield their honey sweet syrup, but 40 years later, those same trees are just reaching their richest yields. The sugar maple is a long lived tree and New Englanders claim that trees planted by the Pilgrims still yield their sugary harvests. Some of these old trees show the scars where the Pilgrims used augers to drill for their maple syrup. Some trees also bear even older tomahawk scars.

The New England settlers learned about the sweet sap of the sugar maple from the Indians who were there before them. So the delectable discovery of maple syrup was made by the Indians, perhaps hundreds of years before Columbus discovered the Americas.