The name of the place is connected with the lie of the land or its predominating soil type. Professor H. Borek derives it from kamie?, or stone, understood as a term for a stony area. The place fits the description as Kamie? ?l?ski and other local areas are rich in limestone which has long been used for the production of lime, limestone flour, and lime fertilizers. It was also added to bituminous products and, until the 1970s, used as material for walls of residential buildings. Today, its use is mainly ornamental (walls, fences, and parts of building fronts). The oldest documented text referring to the place comes from the Polish Chronicle by Gallus Anonymous and dates back to the beginning of the 12th century. The entry in question mentions that the Duke of Poland, Boleslaw III Wrymouth, was in Kamie? in 1104. 19th century German sources refer to the village as Gross-Stein (Great Stone) or Stein (Stone). Even today, old inhabitants say they live in Kamion (a distortion of kamie?). After the Second World War, the name Kamie? was expanded by the adjective ?l?ski to indicate the region in which the village is located. The name was changed in order to differentiate between several villages bearing the same name in the area. If you follow Wapienna Street and then later a field road for about 20 m, turn left and you will reach an active limestone excavation site. It is worth noticing the excavated deposits of shell lime from the Triassic, an era during which the entire region was covered by a shallow sea and remains of the fauna settled in thick layers of lime. The quarry excavates layers of the so-called Karchowice limestone tinted grey-yellow and cream. You can sometimes come across a shell imprint in the stone. When you are in the centre of the village, it is worth spending some time in the My?liwca Square. What you will find there is an enormous erratic boulder of 24 tonnes. It is 830 cm in circumference and there is a mysterious legend behind it. It is said that it was the devil himself who dragged the boulder to the village. In fact, the perpetrator was a natural phenomenon which took place 400,000 years ago – the beautiful boulder was brought to a nearby forest from Scandinavia by a giant glacier. It was moved from the forest to the centre of the village in 1980. Its pink hue and its structure testify to Scandinavian origins. Because of the impressive size of the boulder it was recognized as a monument of inanimate nature. The boulder bears a plaque from 2004 which commemorates the 900th anniversary of the village. It was also in 2004 that the place was awarded the title of the Most Beautiful Village in the Opolskie Province.