Detailed Instructions: In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
Q: history rockingham was first surveyed in 1847 , it was gazetted as a town in 1897.
A:
rockingham was first looked at in 1847 , it was announced as a town in a magazine in 1897.