The Finger Lakes form part of one of the world's most remarkable series of parallel valleys, occupying six of twenty-one north-south valleys among gently rolling hills: Canandaigua, Keuka, Seneca, Cayuga, Owasco, and Skaneateles. The region was home to the Cayuga and Seneca of the Six Nations until the Sullivan Clinton Expedition devastated their lands in 1779, and after the American Revolution it opened for settlement. In 1788, Jemimna Wilkinson, the "Publick Universal Friend," brought followers who accepted her ideas of celibacy and communal living. In the 1830's, canals linked Cayuga, Seneca, and Keuka Lakes with the Erie Canal, population grew, and the region flourished. In 1853, Andrew Reisinger began the commercial grape industry in the Keuka region, and his wine and champagne production launched a successful enterprise aided by good soil and stable temperatures that made the area outstanding for vineyards and known as the "Champagne Region of America." In the early 1900's, Glen H. Curtiss's pioneering feats in flying airplanes made Hammondsport the aviation center of the nation.