Built in 1891-92, the Leeds Tithing Office served a community whose settlers were almost exclusively members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for whom tithing meant donating 10 percent of a family’s income to the church, often in kind through produce, products, or service rather than cash. Families contributed peaches, corn, figs, apricots, bottled meat, and other goods, and tithing offices collected, stored, and redistributed these donations to those in need; the Leeds office was equipped with bins, barrels, and scales for weighing produce. Likely constructed by Willard McMullin and Sons, it is the only remaining example in the region of an early stone tithing office still standing with its original stone walls, and the in-kind tithing system ended in the early 1900s. Leeds’s economy remained rooted in agriculture well into the mid-1900s, first supplying fresh vegetables to Silver Reef and later selling produce such as cantaloupes, watermelons, strawberries, tomatoes, beet seed, cane, potatoes, onions, radishes, apricots, cherries, and especially peaches to local and regional markets. Harvest season involved the whole town, and farming continued into 2008 with peaches, melons, and alfalfa still being raised. During the 1940s and 1950s, farmers also sold produce at roadside stands along Main Street when it was U.S. Highway 91. Leeds also sustained other agricultural industries: sorghum making from the early 1900s until 1982, producing syrup from cane juice; and broom making, with the Leeds Broom Cooperative Association supplying 110 stores in 1937 until wartime shortages during World War II led to its closure. In the 1800s, some settlers were also winemakers who paid tithing with locally made wine, and this office reportedly contained several oak casks able to store up to 300 gallons for a ready market in Silver Reef.