Simplify the following text for a Grade 13 native English-speaking person.
Original: The official foundation of the colony of Pedernales was produced in the year 1927 during the Government of Horacio VÃ squez , who appointed as Administrator to the well-known writer SÃ crates Nolasco .
Simplified: In 1927 , the Dominican government brought farmers from other places of the country and made a town for them ; the new town was given the name of Pedernales and its first administrator was SÃ crates Nolasco who later became a well-known writer .