Oolitic also has a statue to no longer famous comic strip character Joe Palooka. They’re very proud of it.
I come from Bloomington, which is just north of Oolitic. It’s well-known where the limestone from the Empire State Building came from if you live there, but I never saw the actual quarry before.
I always thought oolitic limestone took the name from carbonate ooliths present in the rock and had no idea it was a locality.
You thought correctly. The locality is named after oolotic limestone not vice versa.